Portrait of Edmond de Belamy
Portrait of Edmond De Belamy is the name of a work of art created by artificial intelligence . It is the first of its kind to be auctioned by a major art house. Behind the painting is the collective Obvious by Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel and Gauthier Vernier.
Emergence
The work is based on an algorithm . This consists of two parts, the generator and the discriminator . A data set of 15,000 portraits that were created between the 14th and 20th centuries was fed into the system. The generator then generated an image based on the set. The discriminator tries to detect differences between the human paintings and that of the generator. The goal is to convince the discriminator that the new image is a real portrait.
description
The work is part of a group of portraits of the fictional Belamy family . It should be reminiscent of the works of François Boucher . The auction house Christie's describes the work as follows: "The portrait shows a man, maybe a Frenchman and maybe a cleric."
Provenance
The painting was first auctioned off on October 25, 2018 at Christie's auction house's Prints & Multiples auction for $ 432,500. The estimated value was exceeded by almost 45 times.
reception
Hugo Caselles-Dupré from the Obvious collective said about the work: "We would like to point out the parallels that exist between programming an algorithm and the expertise that make up the craft and style of an artist."
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Is artificial intelligence set to become art's next medium? (English) . Christie's. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
- ↑ Is artificial intelligence set to become art's next medium? (English) . Christie's. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
- ↑ Christie's to auction the work of an algorithm . Monopoly magazine. Retrieved August 27, 2018.