I’ve been messing around with artificial intelligence art generators. AI generators don’t do well with faces. They can do very well with landscapes. But what about still life? Can I transfer the style of a famous artist onto a contemporary photograph?
Leon Kroll (1884-1974) Still Life with Lemon Tree 1920
MARGARET OLLEY
Margaret Olley (Australian, 1923-2011) Kuan Yin and Flannel Flowers, 1975-76Margaret Olley (Australian, 1923-2011) Red dahlias with red and green apples
MAX WEBER
Max Weber Still Life with Blue Pitcher 1911
RUSKIN SPEAR
Ruskin Spear (1911–1990)
GEORGES BRAQUE
Georges Braque. Black Fish. 1942
FELIX VALLOTTON
Felix Vallotton, Swiss French painter (1865 – 1925) Still life in Chinese painting, 1925
NATALIA GONCHAROVA
Natalia Goncharova (1881 – 1962) Flowers
NUTZI ACONTZ
Nutzi Acontz (1894-1957) Still Life With Fruit
DICK KET
Dick Ket (1902-1940) A still life with books and flowers in a ginger jar, between 1925-1926
ANTOINE VOLLON
This mount of butter by Antoine Vollon took ten years to complete. I wonder if he was working on it from 9-5 every weekday for ten years. More likely he occasionally thought to himself, “I feel like working on my butter mound today.”
Both scenarios are equally interesting to me.
Antoine Vollon, Mound of Butter
Joan Miró
Joan Miró, 1920, Les cartes espagnoles (The Spanish Playing Cards)Joan Miró, 1920, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Ajenjo, 1887, Vincent Van GoghStill life with a plate of onions (early January 1889) by Van Gogh
ELIOT HODGKIN
Two Standing Pears (1976) Eliot HodgkinTwo Lemons and a Lime Wrapped.’ Painted in 1965, Eliot Hodgkin
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn’s Knife and Tomato (1962)Helene Schjerfbeck’s ‘Red Apples,’ from 1915
Header painting: Franz Lenk (1898-1968, German) Still Life 1927
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
