I was looking for the "eerie new relevance," but I got caught up in things that were made 20+ years ago — before "deepfakes and A.I. images" took over. I had to re-skim the article to search for this eerie new stuff, and now I suspect that hyperrealism will become less eerie and relevant as it becomes ordinary and incapable of inspiring us to wonder how it was achieved.
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"Each subsequent decade has gotten the hyperrealist sculpture it deserves. Right now we’re living in a moment defined by an erosion of trust in what is and isn’t real..."
"... whether that’s a former president’s election fraud claims or the proliferation of deepfakes and artificial intelligence software. The uncanny valley has transformed from a horror film trope... into a more quotidian concern, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos propose a fleet of humanoid robots to address the U.S. labor shortage.... Over time, hyperrealism incorporated elements of extreme exaggeration, which only seemed to heighten the shock of the uncanny. That effect is palpable in, for instance, the Australian artist Ron Mueck’s gargantuan child made of glass fiber, 'Boy' (1999)... the child is nearly 15 feet tall, even crouched in an almost fetal position, and all his details are rendered with excruciating precision. The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan... has contributed to the hyperrealist tradition for more than 20 years. His funny and disturbing 'La Nona Ora' (1999) shows Pope John Paul II in his papal regalia, writhing in pain on the ground after being struck down by a small meteor. The pope retains an odd dignity, still clutching a staff with a crucifix on it, as if that might help him through this encounter. Two years later, Cattelan made 'Him,' a dreadfully realistic sculpture of Adolf Hitler, kneeling like an altar boy, hands clasped as if in prayer...."
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I suspect that hyperrealism will become less eerie and relevant as it becomes ordinary and incapable of inspiring us to wonder how it was achieved.
I suspect hyperrealism will drive even more insane beauty standards in women, such that 8’s, 9’s, and 10’s will no longer exist in the real world.
Catholic imagery has been inspiring artists for 2000 years. The only thing eerie and new is the refusal of critics to identify the muse.
Ooh! Can’t wait until the artist does a “Mohammad Hit By Asteroid”! Should be fun.
"..."... whether that’s a former president’s election fraud claims or the proliferation of deepfakes and artificial intelligence software."
Ugh. NY Times doing what it does. Perpetuating the idea (myth?)that there was no skullduggery in the 2020 election. As if 81 million people actually voted for Joe Biden.
And in the age of not knowing what's real, they somehow managed to print that and skip over their front and center part in the Russia Collusion hoax, the Wuhan market hoax, the covid vax misinformation they perpetrated, the 'horse medication' that turned out to work, the censoring of Hunter Biden's laptop, and the Hamas rocket that blew up in the hospital parking lot- using Hamas's own reporting- verbatim- to give the wrong story.
An erosion of trust in what is and is not real? My, how did we ever get to such a point?
a fleet of humanoid robots
i'm confused.. Are these robots going to pay social security taxes? IF NOT; what's the point?
We don't need robots as slaves.
biden is hauling in millions of illegal entrants.
and they all need to work... and then vote.
What Temujin said.
The erosion of trust is all due to the left's non-stop lies.
If you scroll down at the link to 'Him', there's another picture of 'La Nona Ora'. Apparently, Cattelan changes the pope's clothes and shoes like a kid playing with a Barbie doll. I wonder how many pope outfits he has.
Two things:
1. "We’re living in a moment defined by an erosion of trust in what is and isn’t real..." and that moment is called the NewAge, but "a former president’s election fraud claims" - against a party known for election fraud - have nothing to do with it. Another former president's previous unleashing of "alternative" medicines were where the challenge to Science, Medicine, logic, reason, and reality itself began. There was no bigger statement, that the Baby Boomers were out to destroy knowledge, than Bill Clinton making that move. I know it's Hillary's photo with Deepak Chopra on the cover of Idiot Proof: A Short History Of Modern Delusions - and it's well deserved - but it really should be Bill's.
2. That does NOT look like Hitler.
Cartoons.
Most people, including art critics, have trouble distinguishing Art from Craft.
Two Things:
1) Mental illness is becoming much more pervasive and in a statistical sense, more normal.
2) The STEM knowledge gap is approaching the lopsided income gap ratio.
Althouse said, "I had to re-skim the article to search for this eerie new stuff, and now I suspect that hyperrealism will become less eerie and relevant as it becomes ordinary and incapable of inspiring us to wonder how it was achieved. "
I suspect you're right.
The wheel will turn back to real artists doing real work. Not AI techniciand manipulating images.
"The Internet be Internetting,...Y'all are so immature,...Leave the animals out of this, please."
South Korean young women have a bit of this already, with an ideal of beauty achievable only via plastic surgery.
As art imitates life better and better, I expect the opposite of an idealization to occur. Fake persons will appear who have some characteristic meant to appeal to the audience, or to horrify the audience, depending on the AI character's role in the presentation. A corn-pone AI fake like a very fat "Junior" from Hee-Haw, perhaps, as a comic character, or a disfigured Jason-like protagonist in a horror movie. This will, of course, all be driven by porn and the advances it makes in technology, because that's where the fast money is.
@Kate "Catholic imagery"
One of the most famous anti-Pope paintings of all time portrays St. Michael killing a devil that looked very much like Pope Innocent X (1644-1655). The highly political Innocent X is also memorialized in a menacing black bronze sculpture in Rome's Capitoline Museum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_X
Photography spawned the impressionist era
There is nothing new about hyper-realism, not in sculpture or painting. I tend to paint and sculpt hyper-realistically. I do so because it takes more skill to do than modern, crank-out crap and so I find more satisfying.
The only thing "unique" about these sculptures is the subject matter. Like "Piss Christ" was "unique".
This is from ten years ago and his work beats hell out of any of those linked. Still weird.
This one in stone from six.
Crack is right, it looks more like a bobble-head.
“His funny and disturbing 'La Nona Ora' (1999) shows Pope John Paul II in his papal regalia, writhing in pain on the ground after being struck down by a small meteor.”
The Simpson did it better, albeit with Hans Mohlman instead of the Pope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTCEPBDekH4
Whereas in a librral era it was Jew inside the chamber, in the clinic, now it is baby on a cold, gray slab, and a "burden" in the clinic, too, with world Spring in progress.
"The highly political Innocent X is also memorialized in a menacing black bronze sculpture in Rome's Capitoline Museum"
Now that's eerily relevant! Gorgeous piece of art, thank you.
Obligatory:
...on the ground after being struck down by a small meteor the size of a large meteor.
Meanwhile, a Georgia court ruled against a rapper today, saying his hyper-realistic lyrics could be used against him in his upcoming RICO trial.
Quote, ‘The First Amendment Is Not On Trial’
Some realism is just too real... Then again, some people don't believe rap is an art form.
If it's the same court Trump posed for his mugshot, it's a hanging court. I can just hear it now ‘The 2024 Election Is Not On Trial’
#TrumpChallenge
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