"These amalgamations are drawn from a combination of baroque portraits, her own sketches and, in her most recent series, catwalk photographs from a fashion show that Hermès invited her to in Paris. Those digital collages, which she calls 'Frankensteins,' serve as the inspiration for her painted portraits. While the models are imaginary, she said, she sometimes sees a trace of her own face in the finished portraits. Not too long ago, she said, the idea of living off these portraits seemed impossible. 'But here we are,' she said. 'It’s like a dream I always had, but times 50.'"
From "How a Pop Star’s Portrait Launched the Career of an Unknown Spanish Artist/Nieves González, a 29-year-old painter, once worked in relative obscurity in Andalusia. Her picture of the British singer Lily Allen changed that" (NYT)(gift link, so you can see the paintings and other things).

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Digital art is actually quite easy and amazing.
It will be printers that need to catch up. Printers that can print the base image that allows humans to edit and manipulate and edit.
More like a 3d printer than current ink or laser based printers.
I’ve done my best artistic work in Colorforms. Perhaps you’ve seen my “Batman’s Torso on the Penguin’s Legs”?
I'm sorry but mixing your paint with a brush is just idiotic. It ruins the brush and it ends up over mixing the paint, which as anyone with serious oil painting skills will tell you causes even the brightest colors to look more dull.
Digital art - IMO will not impress me. An artist's brush strokes, by an actual hand and mind, do. Using digitized images to paint from, that's done all the time.
That's a great point about printers, Achilles. The toughest thing about making prints of my artwork are getting them to match not only the chroma, hue but the value distribution of the lightness and darkness. This is why most prints look a little flat and lifeless when compared directly with the original.
Nothing beats an original.
Howard said...
That's a great point about printers, Achilles. The toughest thing about making prints of my artwork are getting them to match not only the chroma, hue but the value distribution of the lightness and darkness. This is why most prints look a little flat and lifeless when compared directly with the original.
When creating digital characters you get the best bad guys by messing with the chroma and hue and saturation. I don't really know what the words mean but crazy stuff happens when I move the sliders.
I think GIMP is available on windows/mac. It is a free pixel editor which means you are using it only for art and picture generation it isn't good for animations. But it has infinite buttons and sliders to manipulate. At some point turning pictures into vector graph images for animation purposes makes sense though.
I am not sure how to get a printer to do chalks or inks. HP has a chance here to do something cool.
"For some, Ms. González’s rising star reflects her country’s renewed cultural vibrancy."
The whole of Spain receives credit.
Also
"After getting her master’s in art at Seville, she found herself working in a Huelva cosmetics store and wanted out. She had Italian friends and an ear for language, so she gave Italy a try, working as a nanny for “two demons” in the country’s north before escaping south to Aquila, where she was ultimately offered a job as a dentist’s assistant. “Me,” she said, “who knows nothing about teeth.”
That is wild. How do you get a job in dentistry and you know nothing?
I am happy for her. She is the real deal.
Instagram pages and youtube channels - they can sometimes pay off.
What concerns me most about AI in "art" is that it delegates the creative core—the most fulfilling, enjoyable part—to a machine. For tidying an Excel file? Fine. But when it comes to something we genuinely love and find pleasure in, handing it off feels self-defeating. You can achieve perfection, but it can still be soulless. That’s what separates us from AI.
Interesting question on whether she can claim copyright in the paintings. In the US, the AI digital collage would not be protectable, other than to the extent the collage was based on her own sketches that she fed into the AI. Her painting, as a derivative of the public-domain collage, would only be protectible to the extent that she made additions or changes to the collage.
Again - she is merely using digitized images (with AI help) for inspiration. Most artists work off of an image or photograph of something or someone they want to paint. That the image can now be generated by AI - is not really a big deal.
We all know who Bob Ross is - right? Happy little trees?
Well - he used his own imagination for inspiration. It all comes from somewhere.
Using AI to generate a digital painting, that you then print - is that real art? Well - perhaps. Is it art anyone would want to buy?
This woman is a painter.
The photo in the article shows the real Lily Allen standing next to her painted portrait. She looks attractive and interesting. The portrait does not. Best use of AI here would be to have it smoothly remove the “art” from the photo. Then you would have an excellent portrait. Yes, I know, I should have been an artist….
Kinda reminds me of some of the stuff Nagel used to do, take a photograph -- sometimes his own, sometimes of existing images -- and then simplify it down to his own preference. See his Eva Voorhees for example.
Do any of Srta. González's portraits have eleven or more fingers?
In historical terms, what she's doing is far from unprecedented. Before photography, portrait painters had an important diplomatic function. (See Holbein, Anne of Cleves) When painting lesser mortals, these men often relied on a student to conduct the sittings with the subject, who produced the line drawing the artist himself used to create the finished work at his own pace. (See Holbein, Thomas Cromwell) The difference is Gen Z selfishness. Gonález uses A.I., and not student who might benefit from the experience.
A few years ago Madonna sold an NFT image of herself with a tree growing out of her hoo ha. NFT images proved to not have much financial staying power. AI art is on the course of further devaluing art for everyone. Get your fifteen minutes of fame for 15 cents.
Madonna could sell one of her farts captured in a glass jar.
"NFT images proved to not have much financial staying power."
Wow, they were such a thing for a while. Haven't thought about them in a long time.
"Madonna could sell one of her farts captured in a glass jar."
In one of my favorite movies, "Slacker," there's a scene about trying to sell a Madonna Pap smear.
Here's that scene: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18RsN5CGAd/
As I understand it. Chroma is the purity of a color. The lower the chroma, the more gray is added to it. Saturation is related to the value of the color. For instance, yellow is at its highest saturation at a relatively low value. While blue reaches its highest saturation at a high value. Green and red are more in the middle. Perhaps that is one reason why red green color blindness is more common than yellow blue
Lily Allen is Brat. Or at least a brat. Unfortunately, she was born in Britain, so unless things change she won't be running for US president. Neither is Lily Collins (though raised in LA, she was also born in Britain).
The picture is interesting, fun, and perky with its polka dotted lilac jacket. The face doesn't look anything like Lily Allen though. It doesn't look too happy either.
AI automates Anthropogenic Intelligence, tools, and practices.
HOW LONG?
how long will we continue to pay humans to model?
less long than we will continue to pay humans to act.
and How Long will That be.
WHY would you pay more than minimum wage for a model?
If you're selling clothes? if you're selling pretty pictures?
and it's not just models/actresses that will go the way of the horsedrawn carriage*.. it's makeup/hairstylists/wardrobe/catering
How about film editors? do they even still exist?
what about cameramen/lighting/gaffers/grips?
WHAT PARTS of hollyword (or NYC) Can't be now done digitally?
horsedrawn carriage* in the olden days, you would frequently see horsedrawn carriages. You hardly see any horses doing ANY artwork any more.
Ann - lol. Going to watch that movie.
I like Senorita Gonzalez very much. She is bringing something beautiful into the world. May she prosper, and remain untainted by the cultural swill that is fame.
@Howard: Perhaps that is one reason why red green color blindness is more common than yellow blue
The science of color vision is fully documented. Some genetic variations are more common (red-green) than others (yellow-blue; more often acquired).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
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