Where are the limits of a painting? Anyone could say that in the margins of this. Artificial Intelligence, on the other hand, insists on demonstrating that there are none and encourages anyone to let their imagination run wild. Determined to show this great world of possibilities, the expert in new technologies Kody Young posted a thread on Twitter recreating what the landscapes of some of the most famous canvases in history would look like if they were extended.
The first with which he dares is that of La Gioconda, which is currently in the Louvre Museum in Paris. There are many times that historians have tried to find the exact point where he posed the Mona Lisa for the great Leonardo da Vinci. Although scholars have been pointing out for years that it is the Tuscan countryside, medieval historian Carla Gori insists that it is actually Bobbio, a small town in Piacenza, northern Italy.
Young, on the other hand, decided to make a free version that, judging by the comments on the networks, has been liked by the public. “Incredible and original. Up creativity”, applauded a user. The commotion was such that several were encouraged to upload their own versions in what became an exercise in online inventiveness.
To enlarge these canvases, Young used Adobe Firefly, one of the new tools that in the last year, together with Dall-E, Stable Diffusion or Midjourney, have had an impact on the world of creation, as he detailed on his social networks.
In view of the success, Young worked on other paintings, such as The Starry Night, by Van Gogh, or The Garden of Earthly Delights, by El Bosco. "If you don't stop to look at it, it seems to be the original painting. You can't tell where the real work ends and the invented one begins," an Internet user was surprised.
Pep Salazar, co-director of the OFFF festival, which brings together creative voices from around the world every year in Barcelona, already told La Vanguardia last March that "what is sounding the strongest trend in the creative field this year is the artificial intelligence". This is only proof of this, but more and more artists are encouraged to use new technologies to create new works, or explore the possibilities of those already created.
