The funny thing is, about a decade ago in 2011, there was a trend in the art world called "zombie formalism", which was "a trend for market-friendly abstract pa

The funny thing is, about a decade ago in 2011, there was a trend in the art world called "zombie formalism", which was "a trend for market-friendly abstract painting that took the dead formalist aesthetics of mid-century abstract expressionists and brought them halfway back to life." It lasted for four years apparently. Since then, an even wider movement that can be dubbed "zombie figuration" has taken up the art world in the last few years: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-rise-of-bad-figurative-painting/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-rise-of-bad-figurati... https://spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles%2Fdownward-spiral-taste-figures-images https://spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles%2Fdownward-spiral-t... So it seems like many popular art scenes were somewhat engaging in creating their own deluge of derivative, samey art, even before this ensuing AI wave.