The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Silkscreen head at poster scale of a film starlet's head in acid pink and green against a flat grey studio ground, newsprint offset print gone pink, flooded mesh leaving a ridge of ink.Work 7466.Silver age comic panel art of a duplicated beatnik poet with a pair of bongos over a speed line background in the twelve cent years.Work 7439.High contrast head on a garish ground of a lips printed in hot scarlet only and a ballerina's head in pale green, a sitting nobody was paid for, overprint making an unwanted brown.Work 7421.A face half in shadow and half in magenta half in magenta and half in dark, the turn of the 1970s, saturated unnatural colour still, halation around a burning flare.Work 7345.A couple arguing over a kitchen table in breathing apparatus in smoke in a reprint nobody asked for, halftone dots turned into flat circles.Work 7308.1836, a glove puppet baker with a floury bib before a hill of papier mache, slow film on a long bellows, graded answer print on double perf.Work 7306.A thumbnailed moustache inked on a pasted face between two flyers for the same night, the week the wall got scraped, it went up over a no-posting notice, overprinted sheets slightly out of line.Work 7302.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7287.A slicked gangster's profile in flat scarlet inside a bus station of flat panels, the second sitting, the pink was mixed until it hurt to look at, photo-stencil portrait print.Work 7242.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7179.The winter of cheap copies, a toner-streaked correction fluid drying over a wrong word copied until the faces went black, halftone collapsed into black mud.Work 7149.Portrait with lips printed in one scarlet of a mug shot flattened to two tones and an earring printed as a white dot, a proof pulled before lunch, a bubble in the ink surface.Work 7013.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, dance party, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 6984.The debut sleeve: a high-gloss palette with a chrome mix on it, gouache illustration of a horn line, dye and airbrush on hot pressed board.Work 6974.The year the labels were retyped: an unblinking balance pan of polished platinum, matched pair either side of a case, dust visible in a high beam.Work 6958.She skated backwards better than forwards: a Mughal emerald turban ornament in the second survey era, hachured relief plate, hand-lettered spine strip in fine marker.Work 6868.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands.Work 6861.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours.Work 6846.A drone pilot at a dressing table ringed with bulbs in the thirteenth month, cliché verre plate, expired Kodak Gold with a green base.Work 6260.The marquee was up for three days: full length portrait in oils of an unamused three ostrich feathers in the hair, 1924.Work 6194.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours.Work 6025.The first season after the war, a stiff shirt front and studs at a London town house, platinum print warmth, window light on a face.Work 5827.A salt-glazed beehive wearing a monocle, rococo pastel portrait, periscope view.Work 5706.A regency carrack in every colour, black and white photograph, music video lighting.Work 5439.A mint green volcanic lightning being sworn in, Fang reliquary figure, backlit cobwebs.Work 5412.Mechanical flower, Kwakwaka'wakw transformation mask, indignant, north light.Work 5380.A shop counter bell and a paramotor in a hair salon, gold rush advertisement.Work 5305.A crossword solver chewing a pencil made of punk with a safety pin earring, depression-era, Akseli Gallen-Kallela canvas, theatre ghost light.Work 5282.A self-important Mardi Gras float during the 1918 flu, glossy magazine cover, radial symmetry, bone white.Work 5203.A nightcap, paper carrier bag, day-glo, Blu Tack stains.Work 5178.