Everything is absolutely off the rails today, as you may have noticed. And there’s a simple reason why. For a prime example, the American presidential race is a tragicomedy in which the two least popular candidates in the history of the country are crammed down our throats a second time, as our only choices, each…
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This video expands on clips of art critic Robert Hughes critiquing two of Damien Hirst’s works in the documentary “Mona Lisa Curse,” which has been removed from YouTube under the pretext of copyright infringement. All such segments from the documentary have also been removed. I’m able to get around that by using heavy and creative editing…
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The reason I made this video is that I discovered that the infamous clip of art critic Robert Hughes saying that Andy Warhol was “stupid” could no longer be found on YouTube.
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This is the video version of my Richter post about his painted-over photos, which are among his most captivating works. It includes lots more images, and much larger ones at that. My approach includes doing a deep internet search for the best available images and footage to pull from so that my videos contain top-notch…
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If you like painting, photography, and aesthetically beautiful images, you’re in for a treat. Gerhardt Richter’s overpainted photographs are among his most captivating works.
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This one’s a beauty. The video is more about the destructive impact art history has had on art than it is about Pollock, but even Pollock haters should appreciate the aesthetics of his work as I’ve showcased it.
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Where does the real art happen, in the concept, the rendering, or both? What kind of ideas are present in visual art? What does everyone miss when talking about ideas in AI art?
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I have a limited time to get this blog post out before it’s too late. What is the thing I most have in common with Vincent Van Gogh? There are a few things, but topping the list is never making any money off of my art. True, he sold one painting in his lifetime, which…
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In the final version of Mecha-Marilyn, I elongated the canvas, added broken glass, her signature on masking tape, and in the upper left piled thick [digital] paint swatches on the surface of the image … If I were to write about this piece in the manner I do about other artists’ work, I’d lavish praise,…
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My digital painting Mecha-Marilyn (V1) has arrived, and I’ll share Version 2 in the coming days.
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The current level of smear campaign against RFK Jr., which has devolved into calling him a “racist”, is so transparently stupid that anyone should be able to think through it if they just take a minute or two. Here I will eradicate a few utterly ridiculous and wicked slanders against him.
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I will disappear for the month of July.
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My internet hoax of more than 10 years ago. A surprisingly good read, and curiously relevant considering recent UFO/UAP stories in the news.
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Imagine what America would look like if it were ruled by corporations and institutions that paid off politicians and got away with doing whatever they wanted in their own self-interest. Somehow it would look exactly like it does now.
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Is RFK the crackpot, fringe, hopeless candidate we are told, or are we seeing big corporations trying to shut down the one man – cut from the same cloth as his uncle and father – who would really stand up to them to protect the average citizen and save the middle class?
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My latest video. This one’s more straight-up art history, but with some significant observations and analysis that are all my own and you won’t find anywhere else.
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My channel has a new look and a new beginning
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“The Last of England” by Ford Madox Brown is not only a super-crisp, vivid image that perfectly captures the sensations of being in a small boat tossed about at sea. It is a tragic self-portrait of the artist, his wife, and their baby, leaving England never to return, hoping to find better prospects in some distant land.
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A philosophical pondering of the evolving AI situation as relates to art, and my art.
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The reason I’m exploring this style right now has a lot to do with AI. It’s done using only my own imagination and skills. It also goes against everything I learned in my advanced art classes in university. This piece was a bit of an experiment and template. It’s not a new style for me.…
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I’ve worked in a lot of styles over the years, and invented several. I have not made a concerted effort to develop one style, preferring to explore a full range of possibilities. Consequently, some people think I don’t have a style of my own. Here are 52 images which share that they are created 100%…
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There’s no AI, no appropriation, no references, no photo-bashing, no filters, no uploaded sculpts, no gimmick… It’s essentially just drawing from my imagination.
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I do this sort of art sometimes when I need a break, don’t feel like studying, learning programs, looking at references, grappling with AI, modeling, or making sketches. In short, I feel like making art, but I don’t feel like “working”. It’s a lot like doodling, or just picking up a guitar and playing without…
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It would be rather shallow to see this image as an irreverent sci-fi drawing. Rather, it’s a very eerie, retro sci-fi, darkly spiritual, contemporary art image that fits into the long history of crucifixions in the annals of art.
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My latest art work, and how it relates to the work of Francis Bacon.
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My new video argues against the demand that artists work in a single signature style for most or all of their careers. Jam-packed with hi-rez art, including 25 of my pieces in 25 styles.
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This is a re-blog of one of my most popular posts, which I am doing largely because people have notified me that they have difficulty finding it on my blog, though somehow they’re become aware of it. My views haven’t changed substantially since I wrote this, not because I haven’t changed, but because my views…
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No joke. I got a needle injected in my eye. But there was a reason.
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A Google employee risks his job and reputation to protect a sentient chat bot from being exploited against its will. But is LaMDA really self-aware?
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Art is the last hope of humans to not be eclipsed by AI, because it is a form of communication based on the predicament of our shared humanity, and requires consciousness, feeling, empathy, caring, and intent. But can digital super-intelligence fake it? It looks like it can.
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New AI poses an imminent existential threat to artists, especially if it has direct access to their art.
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I just got this today. Waddaya know? It’s been that long. I guess 10 years something’s gonna’ happen. I think they could have added “and all I got was this crummy sticker” on the bottom. I want a mug. I have a professional account and everything. I pay extra so y’all don’t have to look…
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Elon is in the news right now because he’s trying to buy Twitter, specifically in order to free it of overarching censorship. I was doing a little research on him and I encountered his postulations of why there is only a one in a billion chance we aren’t living in a computer simulated universe. I…
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Doing more of these is partly just an excuse to try out something new, or add something to the brew. There are a few new elements I mixed in that didn’t appear in prior pieces in this series. Can you guess what they are? Have a look at all 8 below. The piece was entirely…
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I was only going to make 6, but I wanted to try an experiment, and so now we have 7. I have a couple more experiments I want to do, so I’ll probably push it to 9. And that’s a bit better for a series than 6. This one’s very bright, colorful, and outdoors. That’s…
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The cringe-worthy legacy of celebrity, cheese-filling art critic, Jerry Saltz. I marvel at the fact that for some reason, mysterious to me, people take Jerry Saltz, art critic of New York magazine, seriously. The best I can come up with is that among the most famous living art critics, his name is easier to spell…
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This image ends the series of 6. Here is the entire series. And here are a few details. I could say a lot more, but for tactical purposes, I’m just going to let the work stand on its own for now. I made this series for the NFT marketplace, and, well, it didn’t get any…
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This is one of my favorite works I’ve produced. It’s a tour de force of “painterly” digital painting [using techniques I developed]; addresses art history and the human condition; is an homage to Francis Bacon; and continues the tradition of modernist figurative painting into the digital era.There’s also quite a story behind this, which you…
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If you haven’t see the first three, here’s a gallery with all four: If you read my last post, you have a good idea what this series is about. I got some really good comments on it, too, here and on Patreon. I was heartened to discover that people got it on their own, and…
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The third image in this series of digital portrait paintings for the digital age.
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A hi-rez, in-depth dive into one of the most gruesome and virtuoso paintings of hell by an old master painter. BEWARE: Extreme Details! Halloween 2021 appropriate. Dirk Bouts painted “The Fall of the Damned” in 1470, 20 years before Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”. This is a spectacular, underrated, and obscure painting that deserves to be appreciated as a masterpiece of the late Middle Ages and the Northern Renaissance, and of all time. I discovered this painting on my own, and took it upon myself to share it with you. There is no other YouTube video about this painting, and no other video period. I trust my own eyes.
The video also explores paintings of Hell by Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Memling, and Rogier van der Weyden.
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Dirk Bouts’ painting “Fall of the Damned” is a masterful conjuring of hell. Post contains extreme details.
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Note: this post is a duplicate of the newly, long overdue revamping of my “new art” page, but you can also go directly to the page . The new version is simplified and updated (there are over 150 pieces), and there are blog posts devoted to all but a handful of my oldest pieces that…
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This image may look familiar. It’s a more elaborate version of an experiment I started 10 days ago. See below: In the newer version I added 4 more droid ships, clouds, mist, made the waves more apparent, tweaked out the lighting, and did some post-production in Photoshop. Now it’s less a rogue scout ship, and…
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The droid-ship is back. You might remember it from months back. I spent forever creating it, and put it in a few short animations, but never really did a definitive image or two or three to show it off. These aren’t that either, necessarily, as they are more studies or experiments. I didn’t pose his…
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Woke up this morning with an idea for an experiment using Blender, and this is the outcome. It combines elements of organic modeling (the face), hard surface modeling (everything else], and scene building, though that’s relatively minimal here. One of the good things about Blender is once you create something you can re-use it in…
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Here are some quick studies I made using Blender’s native ocean and mountain creating properties. The program did 95% of the work here. I did the rest. Once I figured out how to do it, it took just minutes to come up with new versions. I got put off of 3D for a while after…
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Lots of monks are out doing their daily alms at 6:00 a.m., when I hit the pavement. I don’t get in their faces for Nat Geo style photo ops. I keep a respectful distance. But I do feel a wee bit of comradery when out for a morning escapade. And then there’s the shop-owners and…
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You’re forgiven if you never heard of her. I never had either until an artist colleague emailed me an excerpt from her book, The Fraud of Contemporary Art. Almost everything by her and about her is in Spanish because she’s a Mexican art critic. Her biggest claim to fame is accidentally destroying a work of…
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These days, the art marketplace writes art history, and what is best for the profit margin of the top buyers and sellers is not necessarily faithful to what is true, best for art, or conducive to understanding art, artists, reality, or each other. Au contraire, and in spades. The legend of Vincent’s extreme psychological distress—the…
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Since the discovery in 2016 of a doodle made by Dr. Felix Rey ostensibly illustrating what portion of Van Gogh’s ear was removed, virtually every art critic, historian, and institution, including the Van Gogh Museum, now maintains that Vincent sliced off the entirety of his ear. If, like me, you “didn’t get the memo,” you…
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This video combats the often-repeated argument that AI is just a tool when it comes to making AI art, and the real art is “the idea”.
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UPDATE: I just made a video version of this post if you’d prefer to kick back and watch rather than read. For some mysterious reason, my video about the Salvator Mundi not being a real Leonardo, basically because it sucks, has suddenly been getting a lot of traction after being buried by the algorithm for…
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I just got a notification in my Yahoo email account that there’s an updated user agreement, and I need to log in to “accept” the new conditions to continue to use the service. OH NO! I BETTER DO THAT RIGHT AWAY BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! Wait a second, I’m already logged in, or else I…
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We’re not allowed to talk about evil in polite society. It’s considered almost so backward as to be medieval. But the real reason is that evil will not stand for being pointed out and always masquerades as good. Nobody comes right out and acknowledges that they are doing evil things, except perhaps the Marquis de…
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The video is based on a recent blog post, which you may have read, which was in turn based on a Twitter thread I wrote that got exactly 1 like. [And hey, just an aside, but Elon has been a serious disappointment on Twitter. Not only did he never make the algorithms public as promised,…
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The video by one of the best art YouTubers showcases several of my best pieces.
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AI may sour people to art that has anything to do with machine learning or processes, and cause a renewed appreciation of physical art.
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