#Art Pleasure Garden (1970) by Emily Mason

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Capriccio: St Paul's and a Venetian Canal by William Marlow (1740–1813) @ Tate Museum

Why This Award-Winning Piece of Al #Art Cant Be Copyrighted

Matthew Allen's #Al art won 1st prize. The government has ruled it can't be copyrighted because it's too much "machine" and not enough "human."

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-art-copyright-matthew-allen/

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Drowning Ophelia by Sir John Everett Milais (1851) was based on Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

Mad with grief after her father's murder by Hamlet, her lover, she allows herself to die after falling into a stream. The flowers she holds are symbolic: the poppy means death, daisies innocence and pansies unrequited love.

Elizabeth Siddal posed for Ophelia in a bath of water kept warm by lamps underneath.

A few years ago, the world’s largest ancient mosaic opened to the public in Antakya (formerly Antioch), Turkey. #Art #History

The sixth-century stone mosaic, spanning some 1,200 sqr meters, was probably used as a public space in its time.

The stone is distinctive due to its curved surface, resulting from earthquakes.
Despite the quakes, the mosaic never broke, and made it to the present day intact. Unearthing it took 9 yrs work.