The Easel

30th October 2018

Franz Marc and August Macke, 1909-1914

Ed Voves | Art Eyewitness | 24th October 2018

Picasso and Braque famously collaborated to produce cubism. A decade earlier two young German artists enjoyed a similar collaboration. Marc had been painting animals in vivid colours. Responding to his chaotic colourations, Macke joined in. Over just four years they became pioneering abstractionists. Then it all stopped with WW1; by 1916, both had been killed.

Christie’s is First to Sell Art Made by artificial Intelligence, But What Does That Mean?

Meilan Solly | Smithsonian.com | 26th October 2018

In a sign of things to come an “artwork” generated using AI has sold at auction. A furious debate is now raging over whether an algorithm can be creative, or artistic. Art critics are generally dismissive, one calling the piece “100 percent generic”. The algorithm’s developer, shocked by the art world’s ire, says “for sure, the machine did not want to put emotions into the pictures”.

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