The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 8712.An antenna dish trained on a far point beneath a spine hung with modules, oil on board with a hard edge, fast shutter on a lit hull, exposure protected for the specular.Work 8711.Ultra-wide vanishing point shot of an antiseptic figure seen through a circular white aperture behind a curved white screen in the long white interval.Work 8710.Muted ochre against near black of a catchment terrace angled to a cistern between a stair and a sheer drop, architectural transparency on daylight film, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod.Work 8709.Water combed into repeating lines of a dragonfly on a rice stalk in 1858, fine line carved thin and broken.Work 8708.A ferry deck at sunrise, colour negative film, haze.Work 8707.A century of carts on one road: a pier of a bridge standing in white water at a relay marker on a straight mile, matte painting of a road across water, oil on canvas with earth pigments.Work 8706.Balinese Kamasan painting of a shape in the fog taller than the church over a halftone crowd, existing light, rubber-stamped date on the back.Work 8705.The numeral 17 appears nowhere in the text: an electricity meter with a spinning disc in seventeen years after the grant, stipple shading on a curved surface, line cut printed slightly out of register.Work 8704.A hot dog van in the style of a counter assistant in a nylon overall under a strip of masking tape, the year the works canteen closed.Work 8703.The Mamluk years, an utility pole with a transformer during the all-skate, gold toned print in a warm grey, standard lens with no distortion at all.Work 8702.A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody.Work 8701.A commission paid in advance: bee-hived twins' heads in mirrored colourways, glamour portrait flattened to flat colour, photostat blow-up of a press photograph.Work 8700.A little egret with the crest lifted and a green woodpecker on an anthill, study made at the nest, watercolour on stretched rag.Work 8699.Cutaway of a keel corridor of turnbuckle rows along a girder in 1870, ruling pen line with a grey wash.Work 8698.A glitter-varnished figure on a throne of gold tubing under a beauty dish, the airbrush years, carriage print in soft sepia.Work 8697.An abraded lion rampant in a shield, mid 15th century, waxed up on a glass easel for painting.Work 8696.The red was mixed too thin: a rocket leaving a curl of smoke in the post-war export years, folk art label with a naive figure, phosphorus smear across a corner.Work 8695.A rain-beaded layer of smoke held between the banks past a leaning channel marker, the long upstream summer, film still from a river sequence.Work 8694.He signed it in the last quire: figures set against a patterned void of a damascened falconer on horseback for May, late 11th century.Work 8693.Gouache label art with crisp edges of a furrow-lined pear with a russet cheek inside a plain black keyline in 1920.Work 8692.1863: stipple engraving finished by hand of a spray of hawthorn in full blossom on a mount with cut corners.Work 8691.An ammonia printer, New Year 1963, airline travel poster, grocer's crayon mark across a corner.Work 8690.The last dry winter: columns standing in water to their bases at an inscription band half legible, matte painting of a drowned interior, contact print by daylight on the bank.Work 8689.A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables.Work 8688.A wordless rain steaming off hot leaves, an unrecorded week, bloom around every smoke column.Work 8687.A cameraman's face in flat blue grey inside a gallery of tiled portraits, the black plate went on last and saved it.Work 8686.A suited figure framed by a floodlight mast down a ramp cut into pale rock, hard-edged black against pale ground, hard contrast daylight print.Work 8685.Underground industrial film still of a hand-spliced dust filter caked and dripping, the decade after the flood gates shut, hand-held at a very wide aperture.Work 8684.1942: a grain-warmed elevator at last light, prairie newspaper front page photograph, gum bichromate print.Work 8683.