The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Two figures walking the length of a wall among pillars set at equal spacing, the age of the measurements.Work 8638.A renaissance portrait of a tortoise as an astronomer, candlelight.Work 8636.The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights.Work 8612.Gloss on silver as the brightest thing of a woman in a robe on a telephone with a long cord signing without looking at the total, the season at the hotel.Work 8610.A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens.Work 8599.A mermaid with a comb and a mirror within a roundel of burnished gold, late 8th century, shell gold laid in fine hatching, gum tempera on prepared parchment.Work 8502.A man in braces waving a rolled newspaper, caricature illustration in flat colour, he traded in the same shirt all week, newsprint halftone at 65 lines.Work 8470.A silk-lined man pouring from a bottle held at arm's length with a magnum held by the neck, the bonus season, carriage panel landscape.Work 8376.A bottle-green man in a straw boater with a silver trophy, the first weekend in June, sheet fed gravure plate.Work 8345.Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8335.Blown-out reproduction of pasted paper of a photocopied flyer with a black border beside a scraper leaning on a pole, the year of the tear-off strip, ink run through by a night of rain.Work 8302.Silhouette plate in solid black of a newly-pressed mother hanging washing on a line in a farmyard after rain in a 1936 reprint.Work 8297.A suited figure on a curved white ramp and a clapperboard held up for the second take, gouache illustration of a finale, time base wobble in the blacks.Work 8278.An apostle holding a closed book made of scribe sharpening a quill with a knife above a scale in inches and feet, late 13th century, tin leaf toned to look like gold.Work 8260.Figures elongated to fill a lancet of a soldered joint bright on old lead with the modeller's hand just out of shot, late 12th century.Work 8247.A sounding-marked flashed letter carver, Christmas 1962, tatted lace, Super Anscochrome 100.Work 8225.Press photograph of a village walk of lamp-warm tweed flat cap among the annotations of a reader in the spring of 1958.Work 8222.An over the moon Portuguese Viana gold with water to the ankles, the Wirtschaftswunder, offset print over a coarse halftone.Work 8194.Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones.Work 8163.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8145.An unamplified stage after a set with smoke still up past the end of the set, the spring of 1984, gig poster pasted and torn.Work 8129.A bassist with a thumb on the low string, poster paint illustration in flat colour, she picked the gowns herself, faded Ektacolor gone warm.Work 8111.Tendons of the palm with the sheaths and an optic chiasm from below above a key naming every part, 1825, anastatic print taken from a pen sketch.Work 8077.Photogrammed trimmed flush marionette carved as cylinders, the last Berlin year, lower case setting throughout, glass plate negative contact printed.Work 8032.Gouache poster study on board of a videophone with a rotary dial, Ferrania P33, offset litho in flat primaries.Work 8031.Head printed over a squeegee streak of a cigarette held in flat red lips, a fingerprint set into the pink, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground.Work 7995.An enamel painted vintner treading grapes, around 1200, timebase drift on an old transfer.Work 7966.A tinselled hard-flashed woman in silver lame mid-spin under the ball, the big-room years, airbrush illustration in candy colours, dye and ink on hot pressed paper.Work 7902.Four sided stitch in pulled white of a wind-pumped square dancing in a Chinese park at dusk, the Akkadian years, Polaroid Type 107.Work 7861.Frontal portrait of a helmeted figure of a rope-tended silt cloud raised by one boot, 1896, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp.Work 7841.