At first glance, the Queen could be wearing a tin hat with camouflage netting set against a thunderous sky. A commentary on the inevitable conflicts and turbulence that took place during her 70-year reign, perhaps. Or a thoughtful juxtaposition of stability and instability.
Aidan Meller, the robot’s creator, said the first portrait of the monarch by a robot provided an opportunity to think about “all that has changed during the Queen’s life”.At the time of the Queen’s coronation in 1953, more than a year after she acceded to the throne, the first circuit board computers had just been invented. The next seven decades saw extraordinary advances in computer technology in the UK, including the birth of artificial intelligence.
But Jonathan Jones, the Guardian’s art critic, said the painting was “yet another example of the cynical, transparent con that is AI art”.
Yeah, nah.
I thought it was of Margaret Olley