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Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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I would like to know how people are judging these painting. I have no knowledge or understanding of abstract paintings. To me the only criteria seems to be does it look "organic", but organic to me is just "not completely random".

As Marshall McLuhan said: "Art is anything you can get away with." (and Andy Warhol later quoted him).

Art is cultural phenomenon and modern art is even more so. You have to study painting and modern art to be able to judge it in context.

In the quality of modern painting is almost completely path dependent and not absolute in any way. Some of those cheap decorative paintings you see on hotel wall would have been masterpiece for artist who sees the style first time in 1920's. Today art critic would not look twice at them because they are just lazily copying style.

Modern art scene is just like any scene. Just because it's usually done by adults and rich people are attracted to it does not mean it's any more or less valuable, or more or less sophisticated than some other scene.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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post #38

I got this one, which doesn't look abstract: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/8.png

https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1878.... looks really like cave painting

I got lucky, I think. This one has the feel of having been influenced by Dali or Magritte: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/9324....

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

#56

I'm curious to know from the people commenting on this thread that they would buy one of these generated paintings whether they would still be interested if the paintings were artworks made by people. I'm guessing that there are two distinct markets here.

2 is a very small number. Peoples personalities and needs vary wildly and are ever changing. And there will be some artist sitting somewhere catering to some unimaginable combo. Thats how we end up with a gazillion Youtube videos.

On the otherhand look at Netflix (or Tiktok though I am less familiar with it) where there is more sophisticated feedback loop deciding what content get produced. They are generating Art, so much Art that personally speaking, I can barely remember who the creator was or what the creators story is. And I have no problem paying.

Yet obviously there are a whole bunch of people very very different from me, part of huge fan clubs and movements built around connection with the creators and their narratives, much like sports fans, political junkies and religions people.

So who knows, we might get a cult or two or seven hundred following different Algos soon.

The number of those cults (and markets) possible is dependent on the personalities and needs distribution of the population. Zuckerberg probably can generate the data. But it changes like the weather everyday. With love, with war, with age, with depression etc etc etc. Where Art is concerned its definitely more than 2 though.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

#57

I got this one, which doesn't look abstract: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/8.png

Technically it is possible to generate that randomly, no? Obliviously this site is fake, but that’s besides the point.

Technically yes. On the fly would be costly.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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post #53

I would like to know how people are judging these painting. I have no knowledge or understanding of abstract paintings. To me the only criteria seems to be does it look "organic", but organic to me is just "not completely random".

As Marshall McLuhan said: "Art is anything you can get away with." (and Andy Warhol later quoted him). Art is cultural phenomenon and modern art is even more so. You have to study painting and modern art to be able to judge it in context. In the quality of modern painting is almost completely path dependent and not absolute in any way. Some of those cheap decorative paintings you see on hotel wall would have been mas…

The novelty factor (1920 style looks cheap now because it is copied) is the gamication engine of this scene.

You have to be told this is good by an accepted thought leader who was accepted by previously thought leaders. Meanwhile everyone stands around and pretends to say something but are really trying to copy others.

Re: 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first ten images are... interesting.

I discovered the same thing. I, umm... don't think these were generated by the neural net?

Actually, I'm pretty sure those are generated by a neural net. There are clear artifacts on the images that give it away. Maybe the author experimented with different source material before going for abstract paintings.
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