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Enterprising artist pharmapsychotic<\/a> recently released some code<\/a> which attempts to ‘reverse-engineer’ text prompts from any given AI-generated image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could not resist the opportunity to turn the system onto ‘real’ art to see what it produces. I then took the generated prompt and ran it through Stable Diffusion<\/a> to see how close the result is to the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Van Gogh – Self-portrait as an Artist<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The above Van Gogh, produced the prompt below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“a painting of a man holding a brush and palette, a detailed painting by Stanis\u0142aw Wyspia\u0144ski, reddit, post-impressionism, picasso, studio portrait, ilya kuvshinov”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

which in turn produced this image via stable-diffusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, I had to try some Francis Bacon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bacon – Study after Vel\u00e1zquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“a painting of a man sitting in a chair, a fine art painting by Francis Bacon, trending on Artstation, shock art, oil on canvas, macabre, apocalypse art”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

What AI experiment would be complete without the Mona Lisa?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Da Vinci – Mona Lisa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“a close up of a painting of a woman, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, featured on deviantart, mannerism, da vinci, art, detailed painting”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Andy Warhol<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Warhol – Brillo Soap Pads Box<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“a box of brillo soap sits on a table, a silk screen by Warhol, behance, international typographic style, phallic, anaglyph filter, behance hd”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Rothko<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rothko – Untitled<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“a painting with red, blue, and black colors, a minimalist painting by Mark Rothko, tumblr, suprematism, picasso, art, painterly”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Kandinsky<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Kandinsky – Composition 8<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“an abstract painting with circles and lines, a cubist painting by Kandinsky, featured on deviantart, orphism, constructivism, cubism, picasso”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Whistler<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Whistler – Whistler’s Mother<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“a painting of a woman sitting in a chair by Pietro Longhi, featured on reddit, australian tonalism, pre-raphaelite, art on instagram, impressionism”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Magritte<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Magritte – The Son of A Man<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“a painting of a man with a green apple on his face, a surrealist painting by Ren\u00e9 Magritte, cg society, pop surrealism, surrealist, oil on canvas, academic art”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

David<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Jaques-Louis David – Napoleon crossing the Alps<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“a painting of a man riding a white horse, a flemish Baroque by \u00c9lisabeth Vig\u00e9e Le Brun, behance, rococo, rococo, flemish baroque, dutch golden age”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Boticelli<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Botticelli – The Birth of Venus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“a painting of a woman and two other women, a surrealist painting by Sandro Botticelli, polycount, renaissance, da vinci, pre-raphaelite, fresco”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Munch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Munch – The Scream<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“a painting of a person standing in front of a painting, a fine art painting by Munch, reddit, neo-expressionism, academic art, fauvism, art”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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