Artificial intelligence uncovers a hidden Picasso nude — and highlights the challenges posed by efforts to give old art new life using technology.
But now the nude portrait of a crouching woman has been brought to life by an artificial intelligence-powered software trained to paint like the legendary artist.
It is believed that the artist painted the nude during his 'Blue Period,' and while he was grieving the death of a friend, fellow Spanish painter Carles Casagemas.Earlier this month, AI experts Anthony Bourached and George Cann prepared to unveil their revival of Picasso’s hidden painting. Picasso likely painted over 'The Lonesome Crouching Nude,' right, to create 'The Blind Man's Meal,' left, at a time when he was struggling to afford fresh canvas.Their work represented a “new frontier” for the use of AI in the art world, Bourached told NBC News in a phone interview Oct. 12, a day before the piece was set to be unveiled at the Deeep AI Art Fair in London.
"Disclosing a work by Picasso is a matter of copyright and in particular moral rights," she said."It is a timeless right, which belongs only to the heirs of the author. In a separate statement, Cann added that the pair had “not claimed to have recreated an actual work by Pablo Picasso,” but a “possible reconstruction of the piece hidden beneath Picasso’s 1903 The Blind Man’s Meal.”Ty Murphy, a Picasso specialist at the London-based Domos Art Advisors said it would be a"travesty" to hide the piece"away without showing it to the world."
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