AI Art Styles
This entry documents how a generative image model rendered Post-Impressionism when the movement was named in a prompt. It forms part of a survey of 60 art movements generated in February 2024.
The images
Two subjects are held constant across the series: Lake Kenogamissi in Northern Ontario, and Times Square in New York City. Each is rendered twice. A thin prompt names the movement and nothing else. A thick prompt supplies a generated description of the movement’s visual characteristics.
The thick descriptor
The following description was generated by GPT-4 and supplied to the image model as the thick prompt.
Postimpressionism steeped itself in vivid, often unnatural colors with noticeable brushstrokes and an emphasis on geometric forms. This movement used techniques such as pointillism and synthetism, distorting forms for expressive effects and straying from the naturalistic depiction of light and color. Creating art in this style involves blending Impressionist hues with abstraction, rejecting strict adherence to visual reality, and focusing on emotional response.
About this movement
Background on Post-Impressionism is available at its Wikipedia entry. The images above are not offered as an account of Post-Impressionism as art historians understand it. They record what a commercial image model produced when asked for the style by name.
About this series
This entry is part of a survey, described in the series introduction. The full set of 60 movements is browsable in the Art Styles index. The survey used text-to-image generation, in which composition varies alongside the style itself.
