How to Read a Painting
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How to Read a Painting
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#2im so tired of seeing AI writing on articles like this. We've been studying classical art for hundreds of years theres so many resources I beg readers to just pick up one of the countless books or articles written by a human and i beg the "author" of the site to please just write the copy yourself if you are knowledgeable on the topic.
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#3This would be an interesting project if it was written intentionally by a human.
As it is, the generated prose telling you how to appreciate art is ghoulish.
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#4Ugh, I was pretty excited to go through this until I hit the paywall just a few clicks in.
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#5Oh boy: the AI-isms on this article are so annoying.
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#6Museum labels are supposed to be designed to deliver the take-away point that the curator wants to make. Asking museum goers to learn how to read paintings is a poor workaround.
The classic guide to writing interpretive exhibit labels is Beverly Serrell's book [1].
TFA has very little content and a terrible LLM stench. I work in this field, so I was attracted to the clickbait title. My advice is not to read TFA, just read a summary of Serrell's book if you can't get the book itself.
[1] Exhibit Labels, Beverly Serrell, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024 edition.
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#7This would be an interesting project if it was written intentionally by a human. As it is, the generated prose telling you how to appreciate art is ghoulish.
The punchy sentence delivery is so annoying and repetitive. The "X is not Y, its Z" form they all take is headache inducing.
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#8Joan Miro - that's a vagina. Another vagina. Vulva. Vagina vagina vulva
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#9Oh this is disappointing isn't it — it could have been a labour of love and isn't.
The "insights" about Mona Lisa are shallow and quite telling.
What did the crowd miss? What did the AI miss?
No props? One of the most significant things people don't notice — and of course neither did this AI — is she's wearing a veil. And a very particular kind of veil with a very particular connotation.
All that AI guff about what people miss when they stand in front of it, all that suggestion that you zoom in and look, and not even the slightest nudge to look at her hair and forehead.
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#10I really don't want AI-generated copy to walk me through how to understand various famous paintings by answering 8 boilerplate questions about each of them. If the answers were written entirely by a human who was an art expert, though, I think I would feel completely differently. There's an idea here that seems appealing (look at a collection of famous paintings, and learn the most interesting things about each one, what to notice, etc.), but the AI copy is a complete turn-off for me.