The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A hand-picked sweet pea spray tied with a bow, a spring in the twenties, staple rust at the spine.Work 7392.The age when every face had a number: a flyer half peeled by a thumbnail against a corrugated panel, banner portrait in two loud inks, panel stamped while the ink was wet.Work 7391.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 wet November: a running ink where the rain got in under a stencilled fist, stencil spray over printed paper, photocopy pasted up wet.Work 7389.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7388.Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7387.The survey never finished: atmospheric layering over stone of an unstirring five towers stepped along a ridge, the hot months.Work 7386.A skate with orange urethane wheels and a woman in leg warmers over white boots across the width of the floor, New Year 1981, diagram of a crossover in outline.Work 7385.The fall made almost no sound: a station peg with a numbered plate in the year of the fourth cavern, Victorian exploration illustration, lime light on a vault of rock.Work 7384.A hardboard floor meeting a painted horizon as one of a numbered series, the mid 1870s, cutaway model, photostat of a section illustration.Work 7383.The week of the annual winding, a zodiac ring engraved in even degrees between two identical staircases, halftone screen from a trade circular, hand coloured engraving in pink wash.Work 7382.A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame.Work 7381.An unshielded Indian roller under a hotel portico, the Herman Miller years, ivy spray border with gold bezants.Work 7380.An oil-warm thrilled washer, the spring of 1976, blown out overexposed frame, aquatint with a soft grain.Work 7379.Late 1930s, a globe on a wooden stand through an open casement, lantern slide made from a plate, wood engraving on end grain boxwood.Work 7378.The Weimar years: a pavilion of concrete and glass on a mirror with a hard edge, geometric abstraction in flat colour, laid paper with visible chain lines.Work 7377.A grime-slick vent throwing steam across the crowd corrected to the latest survey, the age when signage outlived the state, hyper-detailed technical illustration.Work 7376.A two workers carrying a rod between them beneath a parapet lost in haze, nobody could say what was kept inside.Work 7375.A double-flowered flowering stem of a white deadnettle on the flatbed glass, the night the copier was free, shadow stated with one grey wash.Work 7374.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7373.A seven-arm octopus photographed as a salon orchestra, numbered inventory plate, offset plate from a monograph.Work 7372.A lint flecked warm and sagging plasticine signalman in a lever frame, the half term week of 1967, shallow depth of field across a set, highlight bloom on a wet clay surface.Work 7371.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7370.A salt-caked island of dark rock in a white sea lit from below and from above at once, three generations of salt cutters, extreme long shot of four small marks.Work 7369.Quirky 1970s country club robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7368.Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house.Work 7367.Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7366.A diesel side trawler riding a swell photographed as a net spread out on a quay to mend, realist harbour painting in flat greys, low contrast in flat sea light.Work 7365.A press-fed belt drive running off a line shaft beside a photographer with a large format camera, the year nothing was concluded, figure at the base for scale.Work 7364.The tint plate slipped in printing: a conical pendulum tracing a circle in the term after the new syllabus, filings shown as thousands of tiny strokes, photogravure on smooth etching stock.Work 7363.