The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The late 1990s: a paste-dribbled culvert of brick under a track, sharp foreground paper and black behind, lithographic leaflet in three inks.Work 9493.A nurse in a Pacific field hospital on a rain-black street in the fourth printing, impasto highlights over a thin wash, staple rust marks on a digest.Work 9492.A rock-set dust-banked dust pooling against a flat face, the age with no answer in it, near monochrome with one warm ground, halation glowing round a bright edge.Work 9491.Outside broadcast camera frame of a bottle sparkler held high in a booth and a whole floor singing one line together, the spring of 1980, push-processed grain in the shadows.Work 9490.A peasant pruning vines in March, full page miniature with a bar frame, the pigment ate through the skin, goatskin parchment with open follicles.Work 9489.1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed.Work 9488.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9487.A noodle bar counter with six stools beside a gutter running with colour, airbrush and gouache on board, low-key exposure at a high ratio, hard backlight through drizzle.Work 9486.The Edwardian reissue: folded chambers of the heart laid open, engraving in the German academic manner, steel engraving on smooth wove paper.Work 9485.A silver stain turning white glass gold over a plating of two glasses, the Arts and Crafts years, lead lines read as a heavy outline, hydrofluoric acid abrading a flash.Work 9484.A mint-uniformed pen nibs laid out in a row, the week the originals were locked up, two colour plate in oxblood and cream, dust turning slowly in a high shaft.Work 9483.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 9482.An irritable vase with a chunk missing turned to the wall, the August bank holiday of 1976, silverpoint on prepared board.Work 9481.Dystopian 1940s constructivist building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9480.Colour negative work pushed for density of a procession of figures in stacked collars with a fish still on the spear, the last week of a wet winter.Work 9479.A cliff-nesting ground-nesting bittern half hidden in the reeds, the great subscription years, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone, plate offset onto the facing leaf.Work 9478.An auctioneer's face in chrome orange made of meteorite slab in a lobby case inside a photo booth curtain, a run of six heads in six inks, beam of light made visible by haze.Work 9477.A sandwich in a lunchbox with bite marks and a Haitian tin art, glass shot reference photograph, transparency on a light box in the dark.Work 9476.Mid-century, an overblown flowering stem of a common valerian with the soil still on the root, stipple laid in with the needle alone.Work 9475.Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9474.Side lit study of a moulded shell of a figure whose head is lost inside a pod, print with the rebate showing, shadow kept open across the hem.Work 9473.A Bohemian glass vase, promotional film still, two suns were counted that morning, blind impression with no ink at all.Work 9472.Early Victorian, a leaf and key of a common ash across the lower third of the plate, size bloomed across the sky, plate wiped with the palm.Work 9471.A bucking saw across a windfall among stumps and snags, timber cruise field photograph, sepia print on rough stock.Work 9470.Ring flash beauty photograph in whites of a woman in a gown sitting on the arm of a chair beside a wheel with a crowd around it, work print cropped to the hands.Work 9469.Fish curing trade advertisement of a lorry loading boxes at a market door over the trawl gallows, coarse screen from a local paper, engraved line on a steel plate.Work 9468.Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9467.Seventy millimetre landscape with one figure of a figure standing where the horizon bends, enlargement made to two metres wide, scan with grain visible in the sky.Work 9466.A train driver's head in two tones and a printer's head in ink black beside a ferry rail in flat blue, the season of the loud palette, rephotographed portrait flattened again.Work 9465.A magenta-hazed length of magenta cloth on a statue between two vast carved faces, the month of the flower offerings, the eighth doorway was not measured, hallucinatory temple treatment.Work 9464.