Neo Deco - 19-08-25

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Something Special

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 19-08-25’ is something special. A cubist yet impressionist appearance that begun as an experiment indeed. My last drawing of Assia was inspired by a photo from the 1930s. However, this time I thought I’d run Assia through AI. Simply have her move near a wall casting shadows on it. The result was astonishing really! AI wasn’t that great a couple of years back, mistreating fingers and feet horribly. It gets better and better though. Lately I put it to work on my mockups of my artworks who on themselves are AI generated as well. The outcome is viewers and possible art collectors being able to interpret my works in a virtual room. Actual yet animated people present my drawings and paintings to the world in those short movies.

AI as a Worktool

Somehow I can’t help thinking of my former esteemed colleague Humphrey Brugman. He always told not to resist new developments. They come into our lifes, whether we like it or not. There was been a lot of discussion on AI lately. As always, also with the introduction of the internet or the mobile phone, people are sceptic and even scared by this new thing. Already two and a half years back I wrote in an art statement AI is a sort of Heineken Beer. Not a real great specific taste but an average tasting beer. In fact, it averages out basically everything that’s out there. As such, it is becoming just a daily tool like it is was intented to be in the first place. Something similar to the internet and soon to be followed up by quantum computing, I guess.

Honouring Design Museum Dedel

It can never replace a human though, now I realize. A human possesses consciousness and now when I come to talk about that, let me say something about the drawing. Even though the image is animated, I chose the exact frame and of course the styling. Thus, AI has become a great tool like it is already assisting me in maintainting my website. As to the cubist styling it didn’t need much. I simply focused on the heavy chiaroscuro tones instead. The framy kind of border and the art deco-ish dating is in honor of a special place. In The Hague there is a great museum, called Design Museum Dedel and it houses lots of beauty. They specialize in art deco and art nouveau posters. When you’re in town, please lend them your eyes.

Graphite pencil (Faber Castell, Pitt Graphite Matt, 14B) drawing on Fabriano Ingres paper (21 x 28.2 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers