When photography emerged in 1839, French academic painter Paul Delaroche reportedly declared, "From today, painting is dead!"
In one sense, Delaroche was right — what died was the careers of those painters who photocopied what they saw.
New painters emerged that captured different realities—Monet sought to convey the aura of light; Picasso played with multiple perspectives; Rothko dissolved forms into color fields of emotion. The market for painting exploded.
Every new technological marvel brings death and loss, yes, but it also invites an explosion of birth.
Entrenched experts are the ones most likely to miss the lesson of history: new tools open the playing field for a new generation of expertise.
When photography emerged in 1839, French academic painter Paul Delaroche reportedly declared, "From today, painting is dead!" In one sense, Delaroche was right — what died was the careers of those painters who photocopied what they saw. New painters emerged that captured different realities—Monet sought to convey the aura of light; Picasso played with multiple perspectives; Rothko dissolved forms into color fields of emotion. The market for painting exploded. Every new technological marvel brings death and loss, yes, but it also invites an explosion of birth. Entrenched experts are the ones most likely to miss the lesson of history: new tools open the playing field for a new generation of expertise.
Picasso was onto this truth fifty years ago when he commented, “Computers are useless—they only give31 you answers.”
Warren Berger • A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Sterling Crispin
@sterlingcrispin
The 'problem with AI art' stems from deep rooted cultural, psychological, and educational differences.
Some key issues:
- Most people mistakenly conflate craft with art.
- Most don't know the last hundred years of art history, or intentionally reject it outright.
- Most people fear change, and adapting your model of th... See more
@sterlingcrispin
The 'problem with AI art' stems from deep rooted cultural, psychological, and educational differences.
Some key issues:
- Most people mistakenly conflate craft with art.
- Most don't know the last hundred years of art history, or intentionally reject it outright.
- Most people fear change, and adapting your model of th... See more
Sterling Crispin • Tweet
We are going to need to reconstruct meaning, in art and in the rituals of creative work. This is not an easy process, but we have done it before, many times. Where musicians once made money from records, they now depend on being excellent live performers. When photography made realistic oil paintings obsolete, artists started pushing the bounds of
... See moreEthan Mollick • Co-Intelligence
The key thing to take away from this is that the real expertise here isn’t doing the work. It’s knowing how to guide the work. How to evaluate the work. It’s knowing what is worth prompting — which is really just another way of saying: knowing what’s worth doing.
I saw someone define modern art as:
Modern art = You could do that + Yeah, but you didn’... See more
I saw someone define modern art as:
Modern art = You could do that + Yeah, but you didn’... See more
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
“New ways of looking at things create much greater innovation than new ways of doing them.”