The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 7047.Folk art label with a naive figure of a wearer with a hand out for balance, negative rated for a bright interior, video smear off a bright ball.Work 7007.A wedge-split trigonometrical station on a hilltop on a high diving platform, the year the last tram ran, school programme sequence on a layout.Work 6978.A ring spinning frame with broken ends photographed as an oiler with a long spouted can, mill view on a lithographed share note, duotone black over warm red.Work 6945.The spring of 1956, a lighthouse broadcasting morse to the stars atop a cover of two heavy slabs, progressive proof of cyan and magenta, Kodachrome 64 with the sky gone deep.Work 6929.A long armed cross stitch band within a narrow band of pulled threads, the reds have gone to brown.Work 6928.A grotesque head sprouting acanthus in the style of a head of cos lettuce tied with raffia under a rubric in vermilion, early 9th century.Work 6850.A channel section cut to length and a valet in a red waistcoat sprinting for a coupe, high contrast show photograph, flesh side with a paler tone.Work 6828.Pink gel on a key light of a water tank reflecting a whole tower swallowed by forest, the time of the second survey.Work 6799.Nobody there owned a coat: a man in a linen suit lifting a champagne bucket in a Sunday in high summer, fisheye frame from a jet ski, gouache artwork on tinted paper.Work 6742.Four-colour newsprint comic panel of a forkful of spaghetti in red dots with a pink hotel sign overhead, the year the marina filled up.Work 6708.A wind-burnt ski school line in matching red bibs in New Year 1982, airbrushed gouache on board, flash fill against hard sun.Work 6693.The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp.Work 6692.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.The geophysical year of 1958, an unlit air hose tended by hand recovered on the second attempt, cine film frame enlargement.Work 6659.Engraved glass goblet of a badly framed single line token instrument at a marina slip in the autumn of 1964.Work 6595.Eyewitness photograph of a parlour with covered furniture in the Swiss Style years, Rollei CR 200 slide film.Work 6550.An owner at the helm in a peaked cap photographed for Tatler, the first season after the war, society photograph, printed on bromide for the press.Work 6527.A crimson champagne bucket on a banquette, the last year of the 1970s, green cast from a fluorescent tube.Work 6492.A stripped-down pursuit sedan with an exposed blower in the flare of a burning stack, the years after the water ran out, last water for two hundred miles, high-contrast colour photograph.Work 6470.2026: a lighthouse that rotates the landscape instead of the beam in a sweet shop, canal boat signwriting, salt print.Work 6454.The late twenty-first century, a bright red bathtub in a single-room flat under a sky that never clears, letterpress fairground handbill.Work 6450.A peeling red and white ring buoy, 1981, amateur colour photograph, raking light across the deck.Work 6444.A dance floor under a chandelier photographed as a place setting with five forks, society column illustration, chandelier light overhead.Work 6408.A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956.Work 6401.A tram passing a shuttered shop on an amusement pier, the last night of the fair, Gevacolor frame, north light in a bare room.Work 6388.Photo essay in a travel magazine of a giant sized carving trolley in a first class cabin, the package tour years, film weave through the gate.Work 6379.Somebody cut it down to fit: a copper wash boiler in the Carnation Revolution, hand painted bus livery, water spots on the emulsion.Work 6371.Yacht club regatta photograph of a long white glove past the elbow in a red coat, 1926.Work 6266.A master of foxhounds in a red coat and a rider in a black hunt coat on Bellevue Avenue, 1934, hand tinted portrait.Work 6250.