🎨 …always thought of my grandparent’s cellar as a treasure trove of weird shit from all over the world. It would have been incredible to find a painting by a famous artist they had picked up while traveling the globe, such as in the case of a collector who found a Picasso: “A painting discovered by a junk dealer in the basement of an Italian villa six decades ago is actually the work of Pablo Picasso and could sell for millions, according to experts. Luigi Lo Rosso used to spend his days combing abandoned houses and landfills in search of treasure to sell in the family’s pawn shop in Pompeii, Italy. In 1962, he found a rolled-up canvas with an asymmetrical painting of a woman in the basement of the villa on the nearby island of Capri. The painting is now believed to be a distorted image of French photographer and poet Dora Maar, who was Picasso’s lover, according to Luca Gentile Canal Marcante, an art expert and honorary president of the Swiss-based art restoration non-profit Arcadia Foundation. The oil painting on canvas features Picasso’s asymmetrical style of a woman in a blue dress with red lipstick.” — CNN …meanwhile, living AI painter Botto makes millions. Ugh. These days, you either have to be dead or an algorithm to rake in the cash. As many of you have mentioned before, the art market seems like one big money laundering scheme, and now it’s elevating AI over fully rendered human creativity. Is the future just a race between the old masters and digital constructs? ⁣ 🎛️⁣ 🎛️⁣ 🎛️⁣ 🎛️⁣ 🎛️⁣ 🎛️#abstractart ⚛︎ #art ⚛︎ #artcollector ⚛︎ #artdaily ⚛︎ #artgallery ⚛︎ #artistic ⚛︎ #artworks ⚛︎ #contemporaryart ⚛︎ #drawings ⚛︎ #fineart ⚛︎ #forbiddenfutures ⚛︎ #forbiddenfuturesmagazine ⚛︎ #illustrator ⚛︎ #modernart ⚛︎ #oddness ⚛︎ #sketchbook ⚛︎ #watercolor ⚛︎