Painting realized by algorithm sold to more than 375 000 euros

The artist Pierre Fautrel "did" the painting by entering 15,000 classic portraits in a software. When the program learned to do the portraits themselves, he created a series of eleven portraits named by Fautrel of the Belamy family. if the art is not inferior to a work painted by people. "Because even though the algorithm creates the final image, we decided to do it, and we decided to print it, sign it and frame it with a golden frame . "

He understands that Argus's eyes look at his way of working. But according to Fautrel, that was also the case when the first pictures were seen around 1850. "This was not art either and would mean the end of the artists."

Fautrel is part of the French French art collective Avoid, which aims to make art more accessible by making paintings with artificial intelligence.