Artists Roses

Those who are uncomfortable with – or even opposed to – AI Imaging might turn away from this post. If you’re even a little bit interested in AI – or in leading artists, painters, stick around for what I hope is an interesting experiment. The feature image is an AI-generated image in the style of the Spanish painter, Joan Miro.

AI systems undergo “training” using millions of images. However, these images aren’t directly copied into the AI system. Instead, the AI analyzes the images and “learns” about various shapes, colors, lines, and other forms present in them. When words are linked to these images—such as the name of an artist—the AI creates associations between those words and the patterns it has identified from that artist’s works. Consequently, while the AI doesn’t actually comprehend who Joan Miro is, it connects the term “Joan Miro” with a variety of visual elements it recognizes from paintings by him. The featured image above isn’t a work by Joan Miro nor does it replicate any specific painting created by him; rather, it is generated by the AI based on countless data points associated with Joan Miro’s artistic style.

While the AI doesn’t know who Joan Miro is, it has an understanding of his style from studying his paintings. In this New Images post, I have sought to explore this “understanding” of style. I’ve asked the AI to create images in Miro’s style, just as I’ve done with many other well-known artists, both contemporary and past. Enjoy.

Joan Miro

Ai WeiWei

Albrecht Durer

Salvador Dali

David Hockney

El Greco

Gerhard Richter

Henri Matisse

Jackson Pollack

Juan Gris

Julie Mehretu

Vassily Kandinsky

Kazimir Malevich

Paul Klee

Leonardo da Vinci

Maria Esmer

Mark Rothko

Mary Cassatt

Michaelangelo

Claude Monet

Pablo Picasso

Piet Mondrian

Rembrandt van Riene

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Takashi Murakami

William Blake

Yayoi Kusama

There we have it. Note that these are not paintings by Blake, or Renoir, or Leonardo, or … But they could have been, in the sense that they are created from what the AI has learned about the styles of Blake, Renoir, Leonardo, … The Generative AI prompt (in Midjourney) for all of these was

/Imagine a bouquet of roses in the style of <Artist Name> Version 6.1 Stylize 50 Raw

I really welcome your comments about this post. Watch next week for another New Images post.