Lease artwork "Genetical Transformation" by Akor with an option to purchase

Akor is a German multimedia artist, musician, painter and writer who has lived in France since 1984. He had his first painting exhibition in Paris (1992) and continued his artistic research by traveling between France, Germany, Switzerland and Morocco, alongside his main activity of web design, while taking a close interest in the science of yoga, before defining the aesthetic and philosophical principles of Metarealism as a creative and dynamic approach to contemporary art in innovative symbiosis with elements of style and content of classicism, fantastic realism, symbolism and surrealism.

What is the role of the artist in creating an image made by artificial intelligence?

The main and recurring objective of painting as it exists since the animal frescoes drawn by prehistoric hunters on the rocks and walls of a cave is apparently to copy natural or artificial objects of reality and the visible world and to render their appearance if possible with the clarity and precision of a photograph.

The modern man who today goes to a photographer or uses his own camera to capture the important moments of his life had to go to a painter who to a certain extent replaced and assumed the role and function of this technical tool.

This is why these professionals in the creation of images learned and often still learn their craft by copying and by rendering the appearance of desired and coveted objects with the greatest fidelity.

Beyond a faithful representation of reality, their craft skills also serve them to illustrate their personal points of view in a convincing manner.

It so happens that the largest and most accomplished database of all reproductions and photographs of the visible real world is now held not by one or more people, however erudite or wealthy, but by a technology called artificial intelligence.

In its unequaled capacity to provide a faithful and almost instantaneous visual representation of any object that is catalogued in its visual references, it manages to concentrate and replace in some way the efforts of a few years of purely craft work to put its knowledge and know-how at the disposal of the artist author.

I say the artist author, because it is he who is and fortunately remains the undisputed master on board by selecting the contents, but also by determining their staging, the composition, the palette and the chosen and desired style of their representation.

In conclusion, artificial intelligence is for me far from being the most feared competitor of the painter, but the most competent, the most efficient assistant and thus the best ally of the artist of contemporary digital paintings.

• Nationality: GERMANY
• Date of birth : 1954
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• Groups: Contemporary German Artists