2023-06-10 02:25:40
A sculpture inspired by the work of five of the most prominent international sculptors, including Michelangelo and Auguste Rodin, is displayed in a Swedish museum, which was created exclusively thanks to artificial intelligence programs.
Polina Lundy, a spokeswoman for the Sandvik company that designed the statue, told AFP: “It is an actual statue made by five sculpting masters who would not have collaborated in real life.”
The stainless steel statue, 150 centimeters high and 500 kilograms in weight, is on display at the Technology Museum in Stockholm, in a move that marks the change in traditional concepts of art.
This work represents a woman whose lower half of her body is covered with a tunic, and she holds a bronze orb in her left hand.
The idea of this statue lies in creating a mixture of the five styles of sculptors, each of whom printed the field of sculpture in his time, and they are Michelangelo (Italy, 1475-1564), Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917), Cathy Kollwitz (Germany, 1867- 1945), Kotaro Takamura (Japan, 1883-1956), Augusta Savage (United States, 1892-1962).
“There is something regarding the statue that makes you feel that it was not created by humans,” says Julia Olderius, who is responsible for innovation at the museum.
To complete the sculpture, Sandvik engineers fed artificial intelligence systems many images of sculptures created by these artists.
Then the artificial intelligence programs presented a set of two-dimensional images that, according to Olderius, reflect the character of each sculptor.
“Our engineers combined these two-dimensional images into a three-dimensional model, and from here we started manufacturing the statue,” Olderius added.
But is this sculpture a work of art or just a technical achievement? Alderius replies, “Yes, I think this is art,” considering that the judgment in this regard rests with the public.
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