Picasso

Agnieszka Pilat is not your typical artist. She doesn’t use brushes, pencils or even her own hands to create her artwork. Instead, she uses robots — specifically, robot dogs made by Boston Dynamics Artist Agnieszka Pilat with robot dogs  (Agnieszka Pilat)The robot dogs that paint like humansPilat, who was born in Poland and now lives in the U.S., spent months teaching three of these four-legged machines named Basia, Vanya and Bunny to hold a paintbrush in their "mouths" and move them across a large canvas, turning the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) was the buzzword of 2023, with rapid developments taking place throughout the year. From AI chatbots to AI tools that can be used for various purposes including image generation, code interpretation, multi-modal search, and more, the incorporation of AI has been expeditious. However, it has not been all smooth sailing so far. The same AI development has also led to deepfakes and AI-powered cybercrimes. This has led to various debates over AI governance and the need for AI regulations. One…

Two Silicon Valley companies on Tuesday announced new tools that use artificial intelligence to generate images while tackling some of the thorniest legal issues surrounding the technology: copyrights and payments.Adobe Inc added artificial intelligence to some of its most popular software, including Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, to speed the process of generating images and text effects, noting that creators whose work was used by the tools will be able to get paid.Nvidia Corp unveiled its own service, known as…

NFTs shown at the 0X.17 Gallery in lower Manhattan include Bored Apes, CyrptoPunks and other nonfungible token “art.” Everyone knows the best artwork comes with a hashtag and number to let you know just how many similar versions there are out in the world.Photo: Kyle Barr (Gizmodo)The Museum of Modern Art mission statement is to “connect people from around the world to the art of our time.” Unfortunately, it seems like New York’s most prominent purveyor of “thought-provoking art” has some abstract reasons for considering…

PICASSO’S RULE: PUT MORE WORK OUT THERE TO LET LUCK FIND YOU In a now-legendary study, Dean Simonton, distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, found a fascinating connection. Artists who produce more work tend to have more hits. Simonton found that the relationship between quantity of art produced and greatness, measured in various ways, exists in a variety of fields. Many of the most famous artists of all time, those with the most pieces considered masterpieces, created a shocking…

Article content NEW YORK — The 1932 Pablo Picasso painting “Femme nue couchée” sold for $67.5 million on Tuesday at its auction debut at Sotheby’s in New York, the most recent large sale at auction for blue-chip art. Article content The eight-digit sale price comes a week after Andy Warhol’s 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetched $195 million at Christie’s, setting a record for a work by an American artist sold at auction. Auction house Sotheby’s had predicted the Picasso painting, a surrealistic…

Untold stories lie in the layers of our minds, growing through cracks and crevices like a tree of many branches whose roots are knitted to the moist soil in the fields of our imagination… until they blossom as a kinetic fountain of learning. I am a tree. I am a tree… This was my mantra through growing years in the 1950s and 60s. However, after navigating time through absorbing and learning, my branches began bearing fruit only in my late forties, in 1997. That was the year my granddaughter was born and that was the year…