The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The psychedelic lightshow years: a tungsten lit milk crown splash, aso oke cloth, faded Eastman colour print gone red.Work 10009.Spanish match label art of a horse's head in a laurel wreath in the post-war export years, two inks overlapping into a dark line.Work 9899.Ring flash beauty photograph in whites of a woman in a gown sitting on the arm of a chair beside a wheel with a crowd around it, work print cropped to the hands.Work 9469.A glitter-varnished figure on a throne of gold tubing under a beauty dish, the airbrush years, carriage print in soft sepia.Work 8697.A renaissance portrait of a swan as a bride, oil on canvas, pearls.Work 8545.Offset lithograph on thin label paper of a figure in a headpiece of anodised titanium, transparency on a light box in the dark, duplicate transparency made for the file.Work 8475.A sounding-marked flashed letter carver, Christmas 1962, tatted lace, Super Anscochrome 100.Work 8225.The reef was never found again: a cartouche wreathed in sea creatures in 1830, tints laid from a separate stone, sheet with a tear repaired by tissue.Work 7662.Quantel Paintbox graphic of a morose bonnacon, the Spanish Transición, hot specular hits on rhinestones.Work 7613.Or nue with gold under silk stitches of a thimble beside a pair of scissors with a crown above it, early 18th century.Work 7523.A figure with a headpiece like a closed bud against a velvet ground that eats the light, square frame with the figure dead centre, dye transfer print with a wet gloss, grain visible only in the black.Work 7406.A tied crown of seakale in a pot, just after the war, colour proof with the register marks, glass plate contact on gaslight paper.Work 7330.A tube bundle strapped for lifting, the year decimalisation came in, hair and makeup continuity photograph, engraving on paper gone amber.Work 7304.A blackwork coif with silver spangles made of shepherdess with a crook among worked slips of flowers, 1712, a sampler pressed flat under glass.Work 6950.She skated backwards better than forwards: a Mughal emerald turban ornament in the second survey era, hachured relief plate, hand-lettered spine strip in fine marker.Work 6868.The marquee was up for three days: full length portrait in oils of an unamused three ostrich feathers in the hair, 1924.Work 6194.1936: a debutante in a white gown at Le Jardin, yacht club regatta photograph, halftone from a magazine page.Work 5878.Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift.Work 5869.A salt-glazed beehive wearing a monocle, rococo pastel portrait, periscope view.Work 5706.A carpeted melted porcelain doll, ice sculpture, under review, pinpricks of light.Work 5504.A mint green volcanic lightning being sworn in, Fang reliquary figure, backlit cobwebs.Work 5412.Kept on file indefinitely: a bog snorkeller in the Gilded Age, technicolor musical.Work 5230.A renaissance portrait of a swan as a bride, oil on canvas, pearls.Work 5216.Memoirs of a revolving door: a fairy in a synagogue, mugshot.Work 5202.For king and country: a palm cross in Habsburg Vienna, Vigee Le Brun portrait.Work 5125.Renaissance portrait of a snail with a crown, (humorous illustration, big depth of field.Work 4846.Renaissance portrait of a snail with a crown, ambient, atmospheric.Work 4828.A renaissance portrait of a swan as a bride, oil on canvas, pearls.Work 4482.A renaissance portrait of a stag as a general, oil on panel, armour.Work 4216.A model well-dressed paper crown, shibori, everyone was younger then, laminated glare.Work 4001.