The world’s first! A picture album completed by artists + artificial intelligence Fan Beilu “AI and Painting: Contemporary Images Are Happening”

Basic Information

Author: Fan Beilu

Publisher: Ocean Press

Publication Year: 2024

Number of Pages: 360

Price: 680

Binding: Hardcover (large 12-page)

ISBN：978-7-5210-1267-5

About the Author

Sun Lijun: pen name Fan Beilu, second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Film Academy, director of China Film Association, director of China Artists Association, initiator of the concept of “improvisational film”. Since 2014, he has completed six improvisational film projects as chief director and chief planner, including “18 Years Old, 18 Days”, “Let’s Go Together”, “Crazy Marathon”, “150 Hours”, “Let’s Go, Let’s Go and See”, and “The Place Closest to the Sky”. As an animation director, his representative works include animated feature films “Little Soldier Zhang Ga”, “Happy Running”, “Legend of Rabbit Hero”, etc.; animated short films “Autumn Fruit”, “Beginning of Autumn”, “New Three Crossroads”, “The Last Stage”, “Earth Cannon”, etc.; as a contemporary artist, he has published painting collections “Fan Beilu·Jianghu”, “Fan Beilu·Human Heart”, “Ink Traces”, “Ink Images”, “Ink Path”, etc.

The author is Sun Lijun, pen name Fan Beilu

Book Introduction

From the invention of printing to the widespread popularization of “paperless” digital painting, to the emergence and widespread application of generative artificial intelligence painting, the art of painting has been constantly transforming and developing in terms of creative methods, forms of expression, visual language, media application and even ontology. At the same time, it has also exposed a series of related issues such as the deviation of aesthetic ideologies between the East and the West, the unemployment anxiety of artists and the definition of original standards. Based on the current technological and humanistic background, this book takes the lead in a pioneering and experimental way, by juxtaposing generative artificial intelligence ink painting with the “re-screen” of artist Fan Beilu’s original ink painting, to intuitively show what the advantages and limitations of the algorithm are when “replicating” and “reproducing” Chinese ink painting art. In this process, it highlights the dialectical and existential relationship between contemporary cutting-edge technology and national traditional aesthetics, and advocates “constructing the oriental aesthetics of the era of artificial intelligence with a transcendent philosophical attitude and pious life aesthetics.” In summary, this book combines experimental, technical, aesthetic and academic aspects. As the world’s first picture album completed by the “joint efforts” of artists and artificial intelligence, it is suitable for professional teachers and students in the fields of art, fine arts, audio-visual media research, etc. for teaching and research, and it is also suitable for readers who are interested in the current status and future development of generative artificial intelligence.