#thiemo tausendfarben

[cavalheirobr]

Thiemo Tausendfarben

[orphanedinstoryville]

I run a blog where I share paintings I like. For the past few months there’s been a certain type of grifter popping up in my feed using bots to share AI art with the name of a “painter” at the bottom. I’ve been slowly keeping track of these types and filtering them from my feed and I just thought I’d name and shame them here so you can do the same.

Fake painters spamming tumblr with fake paintings

kaoru yamada

jeff stanford

juan brufal

inge schuster

seji tomoda

thiemo tausendfarben

Pass this list on, help block their definitionally derivative “art” help me add any more of these to my list of names to filter

The problem I have with these isn’t even a philosophical one about wether or not AI images are art (although they aren’t) or an ethical one about how they are autogenerating the same image over to sell cheap prints to people who don’t know any better. (Although it is definitely unethical) My problem isn’t an economic one that they’re taking revenue away from working artists. (Although they definitely are and I hate that too.)

No, my problem is just a simple aesthetic one. Their art sucks and I hate seeing it. I like looking at paintings because the more I look the more I see. With a real painting you get a first impression after a split second and then look deeper, the painting directs your attention around the page, you notice background details, brush strokes, you can see the story the painter was trying to tell, guess at their mood as you see how every little detail adds up, the more you look the more you see the humanity.

With AI it’s the opposite. It’s all first glance. (And some of these are legitimately nice on the first glance) but then the closer you look the less human it gets. The faces are all the same. you can’t tell if it’s an oil painting or a print or a photograph. Clothing details become background details, background details look impossible. Hair strands move like some lovecraftian monstrosity. Instead of brush strokes and ink blots it resolves to little bacterial strands of randomly generated noise. It’s not just bad art, it’s the opposite of art, the closer you look the more alien it becomes.

I hate it just because every time I see one it’s one less real painting I get to see so I’m blocking them all and I’m blocking any blog I see them on.

[kojoty]

hello! wanted to let you know that the images you reblogged (attributed as "the fatigue" by painter Mihail Zablodsky) seem to actually be AI generated by artist Thiemo Tausendfarben! (i think theyre very beautiful as Ai art, i just think it sucks theyre passed round as traditional paintings by a different artist)

Hm yeah that's really annoying thanks for letting me know

[purinrinrin]

because this just wouldn't stop bugging me I did some digging and found out who actually made these images. spoiler: it's not Mihail Zablodski (though you should check him out as a traditional painter)

unfortunately the OP must have deleted the images from their insta so all I've got to go on is several reposts but I think they're pretty conclusive. tldr: the OP is Thiemo Tausendfarben and the images are AI generated

reverse image search first led me to this repost on twitter that credited Thiemo Tausendfarben and not Mihail Zablodski. then I found reposts by Sofalca Raluca on insta and facebook also crediting the images to Thiemo Tausendfarben whose insta I then found which has over 1000 unique images

Tausendfarben is mentioned in a few different AI art groups on fb

oh and there's also this site that is selling one of these images as a print credited just to "Mihail"

the only other posts that I could find that had images from this particular set were this very brief linkedin post (stating they are AI) and a slideshow of his work containing these pictures on youtube

'The Fatigue' by Mihail Zablodski (2022)

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MARLEY DAVIDSON

Thiemo Tausendfarben

[cavalheirobr]

Thiemo Tausendfarben