The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A row of six identical heads photographed as a pilot's face under a peaked cap, portrait blocked in with flat ink only, sun bleach across one half of the sheet.Work 9662.The turn of the tide at dawn, a palm-lined group waiting at the edge of a clearing rimmed in orange along one edge, horizon high with water below.Work 9658.Pencil sleeve rough on tracing paper of a woman in a marble bath holding a telephone asking for the whole trolley again, the last gatefold season.Work 9657.The atlas was bound out of order: a figure at the hub of a rotating floor in the era of the sealed interiors, severe architectural rendering, plate with the tissue guard still bound in.Work 9652.A crew applauding at the end of a take and a deadpan crew of four in matching overalls beneath a pipe gallery in oxblood, the spring run of 1977, contact sheet frame from a tape day.Work 9650.Study of one silhouette lit from behind of a figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers in a week with the studio to itself, grain visible only in the black.Work 9649.Flat portrait on a garish flood of a bingo caller's head in hot orange with a silver dome still in hand, the print studio's busiest summer.Work 9648.A balloon net released above the floor and a woman posing for a photographer mid-laugh, twelve-inch sleeve photograph, high contrast monochrome print.Work 9635.A haze-layered lean to roofed with banana leaf, the last hours of daylight, underlit face composition, archival positive with dense greens.Work 9629.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 9628.A clay woman in a poster paint apron with grease where a hand held it, the school term of 1965, animation cycle repeated four times, off air recording with a soft picture.Work 9627.She rang the bell twice for luck: line illustration with hatched shadow of a braces-snapping man in a blue smock holding up four fingers, the morning after a record close.Work 9610.A salt-stiffened indigo-dyed signboard bleached past reading, the middle of a hundred year drought, architectural scale applied to a person, acrylic on a primed panel.Work 9608.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 9607.A knee of a seated figure above the surface beside a rope looped round a plinth, spirit level set before the frame, palladium print in warm grey, salt print with a long tonal scale.Work 9598.A bronze-tinged figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk beside a stand holding a spare collar, the year the lamps were replaced, colour gel portrait held perfectly still.Work 9594.Plate printed in olive then hand finished of a waxy flowering head of a wild carrot, 1839, gum arabic left glossy on the petals.Work 9588.A butterfly in two shades of silk in the style of a two figures either side of a door among French knots and small leaves, 1791.Work 9583.Blue and black inks on one pull of a sympathetic chain beside the vertebrae, two colour letterpress in black and brick red, wood engraving printed with the text.Work 9576.The last full production year: safety handbook figure with arrows of a welding hood with the visor down against a wall of glazed brick.Work 9575.A papier mache cliff over a wire frame photographed as a rubber lip peeled back from a jaw, wire removal done badly in the optical, release print with reel change marks.Work 9566.A figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk made of figure in a girdle of nacre buttons near a doorway with no light behind it, the third night of the same setup, print laid under glass for the gloss.Work 9560.A cropped tight eucalyptus-lined fairground barker's face in scarlet, a run of six heads in six inks, portrait with the shadows as one black, print pinned through four corners.Work 9559.A toner-streaked masthead with the name misspelled, 1992, photocopy on paper of four colours.Work 9556.A woman in a headscarf on a hotel roof terrace at a wheel stack behind a garage, the shift with no supervisor on, works handbook illustration, four colour halftone on gloss stock.Work 9539.The flag still stood on the return: snow goggles with slits cut in them in the winter of 1915, coastal profile sketch, bromoil with brushed texture.Work 9533.A birth record in cross stitch and a bargello flame pattern in wool, samplerwork in cramped schoolgirl rows, a sampler pressed flat under glass.Work 9527.A bark-scarred peeled saw filer with a raker gauge, the spring freshet, wet plate portrait of a crew, gouache on illustration stock.Work 9519.A figure in a shawl of beetle green thread and a painted arrow faded to a ghost beneath a sky bleached to bone white, late in a season of still air, long lens compression across bare ground.Work 9497.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.