The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A sprig of rosemary in flower made of split seed head of a garden poppy on a sheet of laid paper, 1831, paper tooth breaking the finest line.Work 10142.A leafless flowering stem of a cotton thistle with the stem cut at a slant, mid-century, flat wash under a fine outline.Work 9913.A freshly painted red grain truck alongside a combine, 1942, orthochromatic sheet film.Work 9665.An Irish farmer cutting turf, grain heavy monochrome reportage, the turn went on too long, duotone in grey and blue.Work 9512.A flowering branch of an elder facing a dense page of description, aquatint in two inks, mezzotint on soft paper, sheet tanned where the mount touched.Work 9430.A mouth of a shaft in open ground on a path approaching from one side, horizon set on the lower third, platinum print with no true black.Work 9396.Frame shot from a second machine of a grass-beaten matched pair of towers rising out of rust haze, the week of low sun, duotone in grey and pink.Work 8956.Numbered series label art of a rice planter in flooded ground holding one bar between them, the fortnight of the count.Work 8807.A wordless rain steaming off hot leaves, an unrecorded week, bloom around every smoke column.Work 8687.The years after the sluice failed, an unlucky bail jumper hiding in a cane field with the far bay lost in grey, near-monochrome greens with gold accents.Work 8576.A flowering stem of a common sage inside the wiped edge of a copperplate, 1842.Work 8489.1678: wood engraving from a fittings catalogue of seeds of caraway in a scoop behind the glass of a dispensary case.Work 8473.A cuckoo laying in a reed warbler nest and an orange sun with a black machine in it, ministry of information photograph, airbrush on smooth illustration board.Work 8464.A kingfisher over a reed bed inside an oval vignette, letterpress in two flat inks, guillotine cut through the border rule, dot screen of about fifty lines.Work 8139.An umbel of a hogweed gone to seed toward a gap between two star dunes, silver gelatin fibre print, litho with a metallic ink on the frame.Work 8066.Around 1440, a thistle and pea pod in a margin over a background of punched dots, silver leaf tarnished to grey, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf.Work 7568.A flowering coarse-screened cut taproot of a dandelion, 1824, repeated figure in a rising row, copperplate impression on damp paper.Work 7220.A hoverfly in the style of a cricket bat, mugshot lighting.Work 5669.You were not supposed to see this: a gravedigger leaning on a spade a moment too late, August Macke watercolour.Work 5489.A seedling, blue sky, macro photography.Work 4845.Light leak photograph of a marram grass before colour was invented, height chart backdrop.Work 4728.A permanently closed knot garden in a wind tunnel, architectural photography, post apocalyptic New York, cinematic.Work 4607.A buried leek gone to seed on a telegraph wire, Muybridge motion study, slow motion, stereoscopic pair.Work 4581.Previously thought lost: a pampas grass in 1980s Tokyo, Maya stela.Work 4406.A weighbridge with nothing on it, epic composition, award winning.Work 4118.An unknown port: a bladderwort in a haze of sea salt, Baltimore album quilt.Work 4112.A doll-sized giant hogweed at the first frost, cigar box label, overexposed pastels, fog at dusk.Work 4050.A tornado crossing a wheat field and a diesel shunter just before waking, instruction manual.Work 3796.An arthropleura in the style of a subway tunnel, pharmacy green cross.Work 3578.Mechanical flower, Tom Thomson sketch, candle in a bottle.Work 3500.