Hyperreal Mirror
How Art Can Triumph in the Age of AI
In 1840, the French academic painter, Paul Delaroche, declared upon seeing a daguerreotype for the first time that, “from this day, painting is dead”. Delaroche became the first in a long line of observers to pronounce that “painting is dead” due to a technological innovation in image making. The idea of an art form as ancient as painting being finally …
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