SALON BAND rocks Julius Schmid’s 1896 Viennese salon, featuring Franz Schubert at the piano once he discovers Garage Band software and perhaps consigns classical music to the dustbin of history. NOTE: Hangs in Miami's popular Armstrong Jazz House
Welcome To The Digitally-Disruptive Art Of
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My artwork parallels the literary world of “speculative fiction.”
It imagines that the Old Masters’ protagonists used our technology, that couples in famous Renaissance paintings met through online dating, and that Leonardo DaVinci secretly invented generative A.I., then gifted it to other artists.
Come see it at one of my events. Or visit the Miami International Fine Art Center, at MiFa where I've joined some remarkable Artists in Residence.
I'm looking forward to meeting you!
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But please proceed with patience. I'm re-designing this site for November 7, opening day of the sensational Doral International Art Fair...and hope to see you there. Meanwhile, thank you for not measuring the distance between where I am with it and perfection. It can be vast. Thanks for visiting!
SERIES I: OLD MASTERS 2.0
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When I discovered the great artists of the past, it struck me how familiar their protagonists appeared.
They endured the same radical changes we face today, with the disruptions that war, disease, scientific and culture shifts wrought etched in agony and the ecstasy on their faces. So I give them our modern technology to see if it helps.
Each piece in my OLD MASTERS 2.0 series is backlit with a thin panel of LED light to mimic the Masters' vibrant color palettes, with a dimmer to adjust brightness. You can also order any piece on a traditional stretched canvas. They're produced in editions
of 200, with high-quality prints also available on special order. Please contact me with any questions about the artwork.
See the full collection, and order online, from Mundo Arte Gallery, Miami and Singulart.com internationally.
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In this video, I tell you about the origin and development of the Old Masters 2.0 series.
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SELFIES POND imagines the Bathers of Renoir’s masterpiece capturing a fleeting moment of self-discovery that might beg for another, then curation to create a more perfect moment to show the world their "best lives".
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BOCACCIO’S PODCAST recasts the storyteller in the original Waterhouse to a podcaster who charms all but one listener with mixed media and Bose.
NOTE: Hangs in the SPOTIFY CORPORATE STUDIO Los Angeles.
CHRISTINA'S WORLD OF PRIME enables the sickly protagonist of Wyeth's classic to create her own world through the immediate gratification of Amazon Prime.
APPLEGARDEN imagines that ta craftier Serpent introduced the denizens of the Garden of Eden to Virtual Reality and a for-you-eyes-only computer with Apple's VisionPro, eliminating any desire for Original Sin for fun or reproduction.
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WHISTLER’S MOTHER’S JITTERBUG gives his mother the peace of mind of the smart phone made for seniors so she will retain her sitting posture long enough to be his subject.
THE INFLUENCER: Waterhouse’s female “Oracle” channels a teenaged fashion advisor who devastates the women forced to sacrifice obsolete pumps and stilettos
AMERICAN OCULUS anoints the grim Depression-era farmer of Grant Wood’s classic with a Virtual Reality headset to see a 3D world finally under his control, while his wife observes with an expression familiar to 21st Century male gamers.
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Seeing the couples in Renaissance paintings such as Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Family, I wondered what if, rather than accepting the reality of arranged marriage, women of that era could join online dating sites to find their Prince or Merchant Prince...
SERIES II: SWIPING WITH THE MASTERS
BUONACATTURA.COM Young maiden Giovana swiped left to reject suitors like the Laughing Cavalier and became intrigued when the merchant prince Giovanni Arnolfini mentioned her little dog with a respectable proposition.
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SOCRATICFRIENDS.COM: Online dating would have also served a need in Florence for men who sought intimate male relationships with other men, then called “Socratic” because it mirrored
Classical Greek relationships pairing an older mentor and younger protegee.
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SERIES III: OLD MASTERS OF A.I.
Is generative AI the artist’s tool or Terminator? Let’s imagine that it’s an old issue, not a new one, by collapsing history to suppose that Leonardo DaVinci invented generative AI in stealth to improve his own artwork and designs, then left it to future great artists.
DALI’S SECRET SAUCE catches him using the generative AI platform DALL-E to create his best-known work with the prompt, "In the style of a master painter on LSD, paint a landscape with floppy clocks in weird positions."
