Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedRaphael/116364057426763890

had a feeling these art posts were slopped approximations and not scraped images of an artist’s work.

so i have to ask: who is creating these “Curated[artist-name]” accounts on dot-social?

i strongly suspected the slopping with Goya drawings. am not a Goya scholar but i do know he is one of the most forged artists.

this CuratedRaphael is ridiculous because there’s about +250 years between him and George Washington.

#Mastodon #AIslop #art #hashtags

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦2d ago

so i found who might be behind these “curated” accounts. would love for @staff @Mastodon @MastodonEngineering to take a look at those accounts and see if the way they are being created might be a security issue.

anyways, what's interesting to me is the mistake.

thank you RealGene
https://hachyderm.io/@RealGene/116364208940272638

for finding the provenance of the George Washington painting: it’s part of the Smithsonian collection; painted by a young Rembrandt Peele, son of master painter, Charles Willson Peele.

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

here’s why #AIslop is so harmful: it empties everything it copies and regurgitates from its context.

with DiVinci and Michaelangelo, Raffaelo is part of the unholy trinity of the Renaissance. what sets Raphael apart was his embrace of the printing press.

his collaboration with Marcantonio Raimondi ―drawings Raimondi was to copy into wood engravings and reproduce with books― may be the most copied & reproduced art book of the Western world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcantonio_Raimondi

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦2d ago

remember that for centuries we didn't know DiVinci’s notebooks actually existed. there were mentions of them in other works but nobody knew if the notebooks were still around.

with Michaelangelo, most of his work is tied to the Vatican buildings, so primary source images of his work didn't happen until the invention of photography and even so, it wasn't until the massive restorations of the 1970s-1980s that we didn't get good primary replicas of his work.

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦2d ago

so what sets Raffaelo/Raphael apart is that book of engravings.

the book of engravings became the basis for art textbooks, and whole curriculums in not just art but science. it is impossible to look at the Raffaelo/Raimondi engravings and not see Gustav Doré or Henry Gray.

stochastic parrots confuse the style with the actual work because they aren’t meant to know history by reading a drawing. it’s just meant to follow instructions and regurgitate the closest find.

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Dusana Mykola 2d ago

@blogdiva True—and it’s a good reminder of how much of what we call “history” depends on what survives, gets rediscovered, or becomes accessible through technology.
Take Leonardo da Vinci—his notebooks were scattered, hidden in private collections, and in some cases forgotten for centuries. Mentions existed, but until they were compiled and studied more systematically, a huge portion of his thinking—from anatomy to engineering—was essentially lost to the wider world.
With Michelangel.