As if misattributions weren’t bad enough… yesterday numerous accounts posted an AI copy of a Dean Cornwell painting. It might only be a matter of time until AI tells you that the real canvases are the “fakes.”
Jean-Léon Gérôme to Thomas Eakins, May 10, 1873.
"There are two moments of action, either when the rower is leaning forward, the oars back, or when he has pushed back, with the oars ahead; you have taken an intermediate point, that is the reason for the immobility in the work."
My copy after 𝐽𝑜𝑛𝑎ℎ by Michelangelo, with Relationships of Action indicated by my teacher (dotted lines and arrows). Designing and relating lines that echo and enforce the main action line, while also composing minor counter action such as seen on the arm.