AI Generated Art: Computer Paints Various Still Life

WHITE JUG WITH ONIONS

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?

Deep Dream Generator: 2.0 iterations, 60% style weight

Pomegranates wall painting recovered from the Vesuvius-engulfed Villa of Poppea, in Oplontis, near Pompeii (1st century AD)

LEMONADE

Deep Dream Generator: 2.0 iterations, 60% style weight

Ramon Casas (Spanish, 1866-1932)

ORANGES ON BLUE CLOTH

Deep Dream Generator: 2.0 iterations, 60% style weight

The-Three-Vases-1904-Auguste-Herbin-French-1882-1960

ROSES IN JAR

Deep Dream Generator: 2.0 iterations, 60% style weight

Ramon-Casas-Spanish-1866-1932-pots-near-window

There were a lot of artifacts so it looked better cropped.

FOUR GREEN BOTTLES

Deep Dream Generator: 2.0 iterations, 60% style weight

Olle-Hjortzberg-Swedish-1872-1959

TOMATO PLANT

Deep Dream Generator, 2x iterations, Style Weight 60%, Style Scale 100%.

Tomato Plant by Dan Gold on Unsplash

Pekka Halonen (Finnish painter) 1865-1933 Tomatoes, 1913

Deep Dream Generator Tomato Plants

TRY YOUR OWN

Here is my post on making art with artificial intelligence. Below are some still life paintings from the greats.

HENRI MATTISE

Dishes on a Table, Henri Matisse, 1900

LEON KROLL

Leon Kroll (1884-1974) Still Life with Lemon Tree 1920

MARGARET OLLEY

Margaret Olley (Australian, 1923-2011) Kuan Yin and Flannel Flowers, 1975-76

Margaret 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.