AI helps recreate lost art buried under a Picasso painting
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We have read about Picasso before.
Who was Pablo Picasso?
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
When he was younger, Picasso would save money by painting new works over old ones. He would use both his own and other people’s old paintings. Today, X-ray photography has helped researchers to rediscover older paintings hidden in these recycled canvases.
In a new project, a physicist named George Cann and a neuroscientist named Anthony Bourached, are trying to recreate the lost work underneath the Picasso paintings. They are doing this with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and 3-D printing.
The project is called Oxia Palus. In this project, the AI programme analyses X-rays of painted-over works and creates colour images based on those scans. Till now, this method has been used to create colour images of 20 works previously only seen in X-rays.
Now, using a 3-D printer, they recreated a lost painting underneath Picasso’s 1902 work called La Miséreuse Accroupie (The Crouching Beggar).
The painting underneath Picasso’s shows a hilly landscape of Barcelona, Spain. It was likely painted by a Spanish artist called Rusiñol.
The 3-D printer “painted” 100 canvases showing Rusiñol’s lost painting. Each of the 100 canvases has also been released as a non-fungible token (NFT). Read more about NFT here.
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