AI portrait for $432,500

Christie’s has sold its first piece of AI art, a canvas named the Portrait of Edmond Belamy, for $432,500. The sale is unusual not only as a first for the 252-year-old auction house, but because the expected price for the print was between $7,000 and $10,000. AI...

Pattek Value Paper

Alexa Pattek Art85- essay3  Abstract One of a kind, we’ve all used this phrase to describe something we value in life. So when something isn’t one of a kind, but instead a reproduction spread in thousands across the globe, do we value it any less? Throughout the world...

Zucker – Value Paper

Assignment #3 The process and value (commodity vs. cultural wealth) of lithography. Stacie Zucker Art 85 10/26/14   Abstract: In this paper, I will be discussing the art of lithography, and more specifically, focus on the lithography of printmaker, Albrecht Dürer. I...

Wharton – Value Paper

Process and Value of Photography       The process and value of photography like anything else, is in the eyes of the beholder. What we have to determine is the affect it has had on our society and what we have done with it profound rippling that it has created in our...

Value of Work

  Assignment Three Discuss the process and value (commodity or cultural wealth) of either, lithography, photography or printmaking as described by the formal historical text. Read Benjamin’s “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and use that as a basis for...