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Artists should be thankfull for DALL-E. A century ago (more or less) another tech invention - camera - started to create realistic pictures. Thanks to the camer

Artists should be thankfull for DALL-E. A century ago (more or less) another tech invention - camera - started to create realistic pictures. Thanks to the camera, artists were able to move away from painting realistic pictures into abstract art. They should really be thankfull to be able to live in the times when another tech invention forces them to move the art further forward.

Frummy 4y ago
I agree. When the tools become more advanced, effort can be liberated toward more creativity.
- extrememacaroni 4y ago
  Can't wait to end up where every artist's work is under scrutiny for being made by an AI.
  - Frummy 4y ago
    And I can't wait to see the creations where the artists incorporate AI, using it as proficiently as the brush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5EJd7S2uA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5EJd7S2uA Look at this example, it's just beginning.
biztos 4y ago
Um, figurative painting is all the rage in the actual art world today. Art was never primarily about realistic mimicking of nature, even if some subset of it in some cultures may have temporarily appeared to be.
- dtagames 4y ago
  Are we sure about that? The cave paintings at Lascaux are of recognizable animals. Egyptian and Maya art are naturalistic too, and highly refined toward realistic portrayals. For most of Western art's history, content and style were both dictated by the patron. Even the ideas we hold around art and freedom of artistic license had to wait until the 1800s and the Salon de Refusé to come into existence. Most buyers and makers of art today still gravitate toward figurative drawing and naturalistic landscapes. It seems like we have always used art primarily to reflect and comment on the real world.
dtagames 4y ago
This is absolutely true. Art post-impressionism is a reaction to the camera. I'm excited to see what new art can come of all tech inventions.
ogurechny 4y ago
Consumer-ready black and white photography is about 150 years old. Many “realistic” (whatever people mean by that) paintings were made after that point. Consumer-ready color photography is about 50 years old, and not a lot of artists followed any traditional style by that time. In most simple terms, the oscillation between vaguely “metaphysical” (imaginary, romantic) and vaguely “physical” (realistic) approach has occurred for a long time.

Frummy 4y ago

I agree. When the tools become more advanced, effort can be liberated toward more creativity.

extrememacaroni 4y ago
Can't wait to end up where every artist's work is under scrutiny for being made by an AI.
- Frummy 4y ago
  And I can't wait to see the creations where the artists incorporate AI, using it as proficiently as the brush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5EJd7S2uA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5EJd7S2uA Look at this example, it's just beginning.

biztos 4y ago

Um, figurative painting is all the rage in the actual art world today. Art was never primarily about realistic mimicking of nature, even if some subset of it in some cultures may have temporarily appeared to be.

dtagames 4y ago
Are we sure about that? The cave paintings at Lascaux are of recognizable animals. Egyptian and Maya art are naturalistic too, and highly refined toward realistic portrayals. For most of Western art's history, content and style were both dictated by the patron. Even the ideas we hold around art and freedom of artistic license had to wait until the 1800s and the Salon de Refusé to come into existence. Most buyers and makers of art today still gravitate toward figurative drawing and naturalistic landscapes. It seems like we have always used art primarily to reflect and comment on the real world.

dtagames 4y ago

This is absolutely true. Art post-impressionism is a reaction to the camera. I'm excited to see what new art can come of all tech inventions.

ogurechny 4y ago

Consumer-ready black and white photography is about 150 years old. Many “realistic” (whatever people mean by that) paintings were made after that point. Consumer-ready color photography is about 50 years old, and not a lot of artists followed any traditional style by that time. In most simple terms, the oscillation between vaguely “metaphysical” (imaginary, romantic) and vaguely “physical” (realistic) approach has occurred for a long time.