7 Thoughts on How AI Would Impact the Art World and Our Daily Life

A walk from Art history to AI renaissance

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Art History

In 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented and showcased the daguerreotype, the first photographic process in Paris. Consequently, the French painter Paul Delaroche declared, “From today, painting is dead.”

The Night Watch is a famous painting by Rembrandt van Rijn, produced in 1642. A camera could take a picture with one click.

Rembrandt van Rijn, Night Watch, 1642, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Painting has evolved from drawing “real” things to creating many forms of artwork. From the 1860s to the 1970s, Modern Art experimented with new ways of seeing, constructed fresh ideas about the nature of materials, and revisited the functions of art. More recently, Modern Art is also called Contemporary Art or Postmodern Art.

Here are some Modern Art types:

• Impressionism (1870s — 1880s): It is an art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light, and inclusion of movement. Claude Monet’s Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) in 1872 started Impressionism.

Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), 1872, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

• Abstract Art (1870s — present): It uses a visual language of shape, form, color, and line to create a composition that may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Piet Mondrian’s, Composition №10 (1939–1942) is one of the masterpieces.

Piet Mondrian, Composition №10, 1939–1942, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

• Cubism (1900s): Objects are analyzed, broken up, and reassembled in an abstract form instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint. Cubism shows the subject from many…