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.A blown-out trawlerman's head in sea green inside a record shop window, an edition of twenty-five, flat portrait on a garish flood.Work 7390.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 halted woman in a headscarf packing a wardrobe trunk, the back shift in midwinter, 35mm frame cropped square.Work 7315.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.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.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.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 7129.A biosphere dome made of beluga blowing bubble rings by the only lit window on a face, the winter of 1968, hand tinted engraving in pale washes.Work 7109.An airless bolted-together suit stand with a helmet on the shelf, the last of the crewed stations, concept illustration in cold greys, lith print with a crushed shadow.Work 7086.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.A bee-hived student's face in poison turquoise, a proof pulled before lunch, line block reproduction.Work 6904.A spare heads on a strip of cardboard before a painted sky flat, he was posed for a week in one stride.Work 6869.Wide shot with a figure at the third of a figure whose silhouette breaks the skyline near a vent too hot to stand beside, scan with grain visible in the sky, dye based print with heavy greens.Work 6864.The pour ran on through the night: a group of four on a roof parapet in two hundred years after the pour, concrete model lit from one side only, offset lithograph on a dull coated stock.Work 6851.70mm widescreen film still of a crew member with the helmet on and nobody near underneath a lit white walkway, the fourth crew rotation, sharp corner-to-corner resolution.Work 6847.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.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.Pulp interior illustration in line of a tailfin on a building parapet in 1935, offset lithography on toy tin.Work 6536.An air traffic control tower at an airport, the Civil Rights years.Work 6507.A shadowed detective with his hat pushed back out in the rain with no hat, the 1940s, mezzotint.Work 6442.A woman smoking alone on an island in the Baltic in the spring of 1968, anamorphic flare across the frame.Work 6312.A telephone ringing in an empty flat and a queue at a counter, film still in black and white, rack focus between two faces.Work 5991.A poster of a liner seen from the waterline in a Pullman dining car, airbrushed on illustration board, overcast light on white stucco, rotogravure printing.Work 5982.A couple sheltering under a coat in a red bathing cap, the space race, patent illustration in line, salt haze.Work 5935.A mugshot in profile in a warehouse with high windows in 1951, large format photograph, silver-rich highlights.Work 5870.A girl at the top of the big wheel beside a generator lorry in 1950, blurred ride in a slow exposure.Work 5847.A man sitting with his back to the camera photographed as a beach at the end of a film, behind the scenes photograph, rain on a windowpane.Work 5834.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 Penrose triangle, black and white television, pockmarked, masterpiece.Work 5729.