SALON BAND rocks Julius Schmid’s 1896 Viennese salon, featuring Franz Schubert at the piano after his discovery of Garage Band software. NOTE: Hangs in Miami's popular Armstrong Jazz House.
CHRIS FOX GILSON
Welcome To The Digitally-Disruptive Art Of
My artwork parallels the literary world I used to inhabit of “speculative fiction.” It imagines that the Old Masters’ protagonists used our technology, that the couples in famous Renaissance paintings met through online dating, and that Leonardo DaVinci secretly invented generative A.I., then left it to other artists.
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SERIES I: OLD MASTERS 2.0
When I discovered the Old Masters, it struck me how familiar their protagonists appeared. They endured the same radical changes we face today, the disruptions etched in agony and ecstasy on their faces. I give them our modern technology to see how it would appear to change their lives.
Each piece in my OLD MASTERS 2.0 series may be ordered backlit with a thin panel of LED light to mimic the Masters' vibrant color palettes, with a dimmer to adjust brightness, or on a traditional stretched canvas. They're produced in editions of 200, with high-quality prints also available. Please contact me with any questions .
See them and order from Mundo Arte Gallery in Miami and Singulart.com internationally.
This video describes the origin and development of the Old Masters 2.0 series...
And these are six of the works in the series which now hang on interesting walls of commercial establishments, offices, and private collectors in New York, California, and South Florida.
SELFIES POND imagines Renoir's bathers 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." NOTE: Hangs on the wall of Apple's quality control director.
BOCACCIO’S PODCAST recasts the storyteller in the original Waterhouse to a podcaster who charms all but one listener with mixed media.
NOTE: Hangs in the SPOTIFY corporate studio in Los Angeles.
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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 a craftier Serpent introduced the denizens of the Garden of Eden to in-your-face computing via Apple's VisionPro, eliminating any desire for Original Sin for fun... or reproduction.
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.
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.
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.
LEONARDO’S SECRET: Merging his two greatest inventions of computing and generative A.I., Leonardo DaVinci conceived a Renaissance passenger airliner from his flying machine and his Mona Lisa with an empathic prompt: “Make a portrait of Giaconda’s sickly wife and give the poor woman an enigmatic smile.”
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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."
VINCENT’S DIVE BAR: Van Gogh renamed Leonardo’s secret “Night Café” to memorialize a disreputable bar he apparently viewed with a strong approach-avoidance conflict.
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DALI ON DALL-E: And Dali renamed it DALL-E AI to use the prompt, “in the style of a master painter on LSD, make a landscape of floppy clocks in weird places.”
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SERIES IV: AUTEURS OF A.I.
As a filmmaker and movie lover, I wondered how the great film auteurs might have applied the magic of AI to developing their own legacy creations with clever prompts.
WALT’S AI-PIPHANY: Walt Disney used DaVinci's gift to invent a different type of Rodentia entirely. The video is embedded in a continuous loop within the image.
Hitchcock's Shocker: The master of suspense used a clever prompt to create the most frightening scene in cinema history and, like all other artists who profited from DaVinci's invention, kept the secret of their success to themselves.
Orson's Bookends: Hollywood's Boy Genius made cinema hiostory by prompting, In the style of 35mm B&W film, create scenes at the beginning and end to show the media mogul's lost innocence.