I ran across this on the cover of an Architecture magazine in the Architecture library at Penn State about 45 years ago. It was like Dover Beach in a sense and it took me many years to run it down since I didn't make note of who had painted it and it was decades before the internet and besides it's not like I was fanatically searching for it. I have it now and have had it for many years. I wrote away to the Toledo Museum of Art for my first copy and had it framed and then I drove to Toledo to get a replacement copy decades later. It's like a touch stone for me along with Dover Beach. When there is nothing but grim reading and dire predictions I take a moment to put myself in the painting and think how cool it would be to see it for real.
The news these days is repellently dark and January 20th cannot come soon enough.
Looking at it just now I wonder what it would look like if I turned AI loose on generating a more lifelike version with near infinite detail. If so it would be my first use of AI.
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It's fake. You want to use AI to add realism.
Now I ask you, don't you think that a bit twisted.
Perhaps. I like the painting as it is but it would be very cool to see it in near photographic detail.
In hindsight it looks like me raining on your parade. My apologies. It is a fine image. It's that I saw mirth in the incongruity.
The eye (mine, anyway) first tends to focus on the brightest areas and the mind (mine, anyway) tends to say, "Eh! so what!" - then I first noticed Giza in the background
What most people miss is the titanic scale of the painting. Look at the plaza in front of the ships to see the scale of the buildings with people.
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