The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A magician's face in flat indigo photographed as a palm leaf manuscript, opus anglicanum in split stitch, scratched negative printed anyway.Work 7405.Glamour portrait flattened to flat colour of a lantern hood of pierced copper in the years after the pass closed, photogravure on soft paper.Work 7348.Mosan colour like cloisonne enamel of a cadel with a face hidden in it holding a closed gospel book, late 10th century.Work 7289.A head of a drumhead cabbage on a slate outside a greengrocer, letterpress with a stock engraving, paper showing through the flat colour.Work 7184.A chipped enamel whitlow bandaged with tape in the seventh transit, print struck for a single dominant hue, all middle tones and no black.Work 7161.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.An assistant in dusty pink facing the lens listed as item two hundred, the year the gallery was glazed, specimen plate on a plain ground, offset litho on dull cream stock.Work 6892.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.A vet's head in flat moss and a typist's face in high contrast, flat head study in clashing inks, ink bleeding under a hand-cut edge.Work 6835.A suit hung on a wooden frame, the third watch of the old order, overcast light with one break of sun, ambrotype with a deep green ground.Work 6814.The year of the four colourways, a two-toned astronaut's head in flat silver grey with the hair printed as one flat mass, two-ink portrait with a black key.Work 6762.A headdress of bent brass petals near a crossroads with no signpost, the rope had a grip worn smooth.Work 6735.A deadpan attendant in a moulded chest plate, the year nobody logged, slow push along an axis, cold-toned chromogenic print.Work 6691.The print studio's busiest summer: an overprinted judge's head in flat crimson, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, silkscreen ink proud of the surface.Work 6678.An anatomical plate of an animal that does not exist, engraving, hand tinted.Work 6598.1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment.Work 6564.Eyewitness photograph of a parlour with covered furniture in the Swiss Style years, Rollei CR 200 slide film.Work 6550.The year the archive forgot: a Russian wedding bread and salt in a best room kept for visitors, Ghiordes knot rug, Kodak Portra 800.Work 6468.A top hat carried under an arm and a freeze frame on a smiling family, sign on test pattern frame, flying spot scanner highlight flare.Work 6237.The marquee was up for three days: full length portrait in oils of an unamused three ostrich feathers in the hair, 1924.Work 6194.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 6032.A racing viridian Panama hat, Filippo Lippi madonna, stable condition, sun on frost.Work 5655.A short-staffed battery-operated town crier ringing a handbell, Gustave Moreau canvas, an ode to a pothole, charging light green.Work 5615.A renaissance portrait of a cat as a cardinal, chiaroscuro, red silk.Work 5569.Northern Renaissance portrait of a traffic warden's notebook inside a pocket watch, Ilford FP4.Work 5559.A parcel containing a storm in the style of a receipt for the ocean, tintype sheen.Work 5554.A fur trimmed radio announcer in a field of blue flowers, Degas pastel, Ben-Day dots.Work 5423.A carpenter bee made of clown car driver, numbered, Victorian needlework sampler, frost light.Work 5384.Paula Modersohn-Becker portrait of a heliostat during the Hungry Ghost Festival, ultraviolet forensic glow.Work 5369.A shrew as a schoolmistress and a traffic cone in the Showa era, Manet canvas.Work 5309.