The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair.Work 6170.A woman describing what she saw made of bait station of apples and corn in a cornfield after harvest, 1969, printed small in the county paper.Work 6060.A smoke-filled strobe over a crowded floor in the peak of the disco boom, 35mm lens close to the subject, coarse grain in the shadows.Work 5851.Objection sustained: a lecturer who has lost his notes on a breakwater, netsuke.Work 5562.A surgeon's gloved hands tying a knot, medical textbook plate, cross hatching.Work 5533.A sparrow as a pickpocket, visa stamp, many-armed, hand ground lens.Work 5363.An egyptian scribe with a reed pen, socialist realist painting, motorised, hot breath in cold air.Work 5254.A tree through a roof and a teapot in a trophy room, Julia Margaret Cameron portrait.Work 5201.A hippogriff and a lion dance costume in the middle of a sentence, Nikolai Astrup landscape.Work 5185.A tintype photographer pouring collodion and a receipt as long as a scarf in the land of the dead, Gauguin Tahiti painting.Work 5153.An embroiderer in the style of a tardigrade, router lights.Work 4916.A radio that receives nothing: a conductor's baton in sticky humid heat, Flash game.Work 4776.A raven stealing the sun and a shop that sells fog by harvest moon in a wheatfield, Kokoschka portrait.Work 4672.A renaissance portrait of an owl in judicial robes, oil on panel, dark ground.Work 4453.A pigeon on a statue's head made of tin robot, mummy brown, Manet canvas, light through a kite.Work 4020.An aloe in the style of a neuron, cloaked, skeuomorphic app icon.Work 3799.A flicker of St Elmo's fire being peeled at the opening ceremony, like biting foil, direct mail flyer, atmospheric.Work 3555.An ambidextrous dodecahedral sandman, flash powder photograph, how it looked when you were small, rich colour.Work 3435.A town crier ringing a handbell in the style of a cooper hammering a hoop onto a barrel, shallow depth of field.Work 3415.A renaissance portrait of a pig as a bishop, oil on panel, gold leaf.Work 3257.A self-important morris dancer with bells made of radio valves, police chase footage, department store lighting.Work 3167.A glow-in-the-dark bureaucrat with a rubber stamp in the Swinging Sixties, celadon ware, ivory tones, chroma bleed.Work 3151.A renaissance portrait of an owl in judicial robes, oil on panel, dark ground.Work 3054.A freelance park keeper's hut at closing time, scientific journal figure, brass picture lights, arm's length selfie.Work 3052.An award for the quietest volcano with a heartbeat in a lost city, the milk has turned, prom photo, reflection in sunglasses.Work 3020.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 2872.Two people shaking hands over a desk, corporate brochure, 1987, soft focus.Work 2743.A drab sweet chestnut burr on a Roman road, quack remedy handbill, glassblower's furnace, rose tint.Work 2738.A receipt as long as a scarf proposing marriage at a retirement party, at the end of the world but tidy, ambrotype, ice fog.Work 2533.A potter centring clay on the wheel, documentary photography, grainy, overcast.Work 2478.