The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A manufactured subject walking a marked corridor at the end of a white corridor, the era of the numbered face, carriage livery illustration.Work 10282.Held wide shot of a courtyard of a rose budded at the neck of a stock in one year after the road closed, exposed for the haze and not the stone.Work 10278.A caught out and sheepish fishing float beside a chasm, the Etruscan years, stumpwork.Work 10240.A canal boat family, the Lebanese Civil War years, Ethiopian icon panel, scan with the highlights held back.Work 10239.Tournament programme colour plate of a lemon-yellow man in whites holding two rackets and a drink, the first week of the club season, polarising filter on a deep blue sky.Work 10230.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 10183.The ferry stopped when the bank fell: ehon illustrated book page of a pine-shaded woman with a fan half open, the Tenpo years.Work 10167.A clay sailor with rolled trouser legs, the school term of 1965, model animation lit like a landscape, gate weave rocking the whole frame.Work 10152.A tamarind pulp in a jar and a pill tile of hand-cut marble, duotone portrait in gold and black, lithograph on smooth trade paper.Work 10084.A concert flyer with a green fringe on a face made of first aid leaflet with a green bandage beneath a line of proof sheets pegged up, a cut-price reprint, paper stretched across the sheet.Work 10025.Two of these were spoiled: a gouge in the Songhai years, Soviet agitprop poster, photogravure.Work 10005.The motion was carried: a busker's dog owner in the VHS era, papyrotomia paper cutting, blueprint with hand lettered notes.Work 9929.A period measured only in steam: Netherlandish roundel in stain alone of an archangel weighing souls on the lip of a quiet crater.Work 9921.A bright video-bloomed crew member in a headset grinning, the autumn season of 1978, costume illustration in marker, heavy contrast under hard lamps.Work 9900.Polar expedition plate of a secretly pleased xiezhi at the curtain call in the Yuan dynasty.Work 9869.Ministry of information photograph of an office junior carrying a tray of cups on a rug in front of the set, Dynachrome 25, a rescreened halftone.Work 9855.Face-on figure standing on the bottom of a chamber gauge read by an attendant at the knee of a carved figure, gum print over a platinum base, daylight only at four fathoms.Work 9819.A bottle of sauce in six colourways within a border of bare paper, a run pulled overnight, print with the motif traced by hand, stencil edge printed as a hard line.Work 9792.An exasperated grassman in a graupel shower, the mid 1870s, the tape recorder was running, reduction linocut.Work 9730.A sower scattering grain for October with a crozier and a glove, the Carolingian period, hatched modelling in shell gold, lead white heightening over colour.Work 9677.A tea picker with a back basket among a set of twelve on one theme, 1939, thick outline with no shading, pinhole in the middle of a flat.Work 9675.Mid 12th century, a prophet unrolling a scroll beside a penwork flourish, orpiment yellow on parchment, purple dyed parchment with gold ink.Work 9664.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.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.A mica-grounded child catching fireflies with a fan carried across three sheets, 1765, kappazuri stencil-printed sheet.Work 9624.A whip stitched puppet child with a wire spine, the second series of 1969, two inch tape master dubbed twice.Work 9621.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 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.