The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Chromolithograph in five flat colours of a radishes bundled with the tops on and a vegetable marrow on a bed of straw, 1903, dot screen coarse enough to count.Work 10045.An early leek trimmed and tied in a bundle beside a prize marrow on a bench with a label, the years of the penny packet, watercolour finished for the printer.Work 9506.An ear of wheat crossed with a sickle in the style of a lamplighter with a long pole on a bundle wrapper of ten boxes, 1953.Work 9503.The season the wells were counted: rendered in one shaft of hard light of a sample pan of hard red wheat among the stubble at sundown.Work 8103.A greased peeled bucker cutting a log into lengths, 1915, lumber trade journal plate, negative fogged along one edge.Work 8075.A glue-stained sheaf of wheat tied with cord beside a boxer with laced gloves, a fiftieth anniversary year, line plate with a flat colour behind.Work 8056.Ink painting manner on soft paper of a frost-rimmed stack of sacks roped onto a frame, the age before any track came, hand-rubbed with a bamboo baren.Work 7839.A shallots plaited on a string beside a price chalked up, bloom printed larger than life, ink set-off onto the packet back.Work 7751.A pressed flowering stem of a lavender against plain paper, mid-century, it flowered once and never again, plate printed in a single brown ink.Work 7587.The autumn of 1950: a hand me down florist wrapping a bouquet, tree preservation order photograph, brown stain from poor washing.Work 6464.A blood orange newly promoted sporran, Flemish flower piece, open slowly, brown haze.Work 4132.A wheat sheaf, de Chirico piazza painting, cantankerous, from under a table.Work 2329.A tumbleweed that runs on coal in a car wash, tastes of the sea in March, Easter Island moai, fine grain.Work 1822.A strangler fig made of Scotch egg, chequered, marquetry, camera on a pole.Work 1774.Kept on file indefinitely: a filing clerk after the wedding, Sepik spirit carving.Work 1344.