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The Beauty of Painting, Collection #17

This is our latest open collection of AI-assisted erotic art, expressing the beauty of the human form in many different painting styles. Using AI we can create art in any style or movement, and invent new ones.

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Olympia (2023), an AI-assisted recreation of Édouard Manet's masterpiece, by AIroticArt

Our very first post on Reddit was our recreation of Francisco de Goya's masterpiece La Maja Desnuda (1797-1800). That was eight months ago, when generative AI was still relatively new, and we were still beginners. We have now turned our attention to another nude masterpiece, Olympia (1863-65), 130.5x190cm, by Édouard Manet, to show what is possible today.

Olympia is a famous painting that was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon. It depicts a nude woman, "Olympia," who is lying on a bed. A Black servant is bringing her flowers. As Wikipedia notes, "Olympia's confrontational gaze caused shock and astonishment when the painting was first exhibited because a number of details in the picture identified her as a prostitute."

The painting is on display at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, but will soon travel to the United States for the first time this coming fall (2023), on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York beginning September 24.

Of course, the painting was shocking when it was first exhibited. Her "confrontational gaze" and the details that identify her as a demi-mondaine (prostitute) seem to have caused a stir. The model for Olympia was Victorine Meurent, and for the servant, art model Laure. Conservatives predictably condemned the painting as "immoral" and "vulgar." But others commended Manet's honesty, such as Émile Zola, who said, "When our artists give us Venuses, they correct nature, they lie. Édouard Manet asked himself why lie, why not tell the truth; he introduced us to Olympia, this fille of our time, whom you meet on the sidewalks." A lot of discussion has been about the presence of the black maid in the painting, and what this says about race, slavery, feminism, the juxtaposition of black and white, etc.

To recreate this piece, we used many of the advancements in generative AI in the last eight months, including ControlNet, which allowed us to stay truer to the original painting than our recreation of La Maja Desnuda. Many details are still present in our recreation that are in the original painting, down to the smallest folds of the fabric (click the image to zoom in to the hi-res version). We also took some artistic liberties ourselves, such as adding pubic hair (why lie, why not tell the truth?), adding detail to the wallpaper, adding freckles, and many other minor details. Of course, our recreation is intended to be photorealistic, perhaps even giving us a glimpse of the scene that Manet was studying as he created his masterpiece in Paris.

We did leave one detail exactly as it is in Manet's original painting, with his original brushstrokes and all, and that is the slippers and toes. This is our homage to the great work of the master.

We are AIroticArt™, and we are happy to celebrate the nude human form in recreations such as these, as well as entirely new erotic content and artwork, assisted with this new generative AI technology. We hope you'll join us on this journey, exploring and unveiling the beauty that exists deep in the latent space (a term used for the deep neural network of the AI), and embracing the humans that we are, down to our bare skin.

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ANDREW BRISCHLER

MONSTER (Lime Labyrinth) 2018-2019 Colored pencil and graphite on paper 22 x 30 inches

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