An exhibition of neural network-generated drawings opened at the Russian Museum
The Eastern Pavilion of the Mikhailovsky Castle has temporarily turned into a realm of advanced technologies. The educational and exhibition project “Modern Art and Science: Boundaries of Synthesis”, prepared by the Russian Museum together with its partners, opened here. The works include many children’s digital drawings that have been processed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI).
Earlier, young artists were invited to take part in a competition on the Generation M online platform. The artificial intelligence was tasked with turning the works drawn by modern teenagers into full-fledged paintings in the style of one of the outstanding artists of the past. Selected several masters, under which the neural network “worked”. Among them are Nikolai Roerich, Ivan Aivazovsky, Vasily Kandinsky, Konstantin Korovin, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Then the neural network itself selected the winners, they were ten people from different regions.
For example, eleven-year-old Evelina Aivazova from St. Petersburg made a sketch of a girl with huge eyes, sixteen-year-old Anastasia Sukhova from Belgorod – a surprised lady, twelve-year-old Miloslava Valeeva from Ufa – a mysterious castle.
Evelina Aivazova’s sketch by artificial intelligence turned into impressionist paintings. According to the girl, she had never worked with a neural network before, although she draws a lot. She was very interested to see how artificial intelligence would transform a real, human-made work. The result amazed her and she was pleased with it. The girl’s work and the AI creation now hang together in one of the halls of St. Michael’s Castle.
