Gosh it's hard not to enjoy this, even as an artist who is uneasy about the whole GenAI image thing. Having said that, I'm temporarily comforted at how ugly a lot of the abstract paintings are once animated.
Without any context, these transformations are pure spectacle. And it's bad when you take something that had meaning and turn it into a spectacle.
This site could be a commentary on the frivolity of AI, a takedown of "great" art, an attempt to make art more approachable, or a tech demo. But without knowing which, it's an impressive, forgettable spectacle.
Strange that you need the website (author) to tell you how to interpret it. It's like art itself, you're allowed to come up with your own interpretations.
Yeah, let's just generate new stuff from old stuff. Recycled art would surely save us. Only we're not sure from what. This is like a monument to mourn all dead NFTs.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 31.8 ms ] threadWithout any context, these transformations are pure spectacle. And it's bad when you take something that had meaning and turn it into a spectacle.
This site could be a commentary on the frivolity of AI, a takedown of "great" art, an attempt to make art more approachable, or a tech demo. But without knowing which, it's an impressive, forgettable spectacle.
Though I did notice that all the human characters tend to take on the same generic facial realness, which does diminish the paintings style itself.
Also, the trees sway and bob far too much