how did the collection come to be?
the placeholder project is a collection of gifs and the exploration of colors within paintings.
Pablo Picasso is quoted as having said that “good artists borrow, great artists steal.”
Nobody can own a color palette and not many have stretched the possibilities of the timeless loop in a GIF. Using the colors from paintings that have made an impact in our society, placeholder NFTs is a celebration of colors with the help of the computer.
Beginning with a painter’s body of work, as the input of our AI-powered black box, here are the steps to creating a placeholder collection:
- Gathering the best works of an artist throughout their career
- Extract the essence of the painting by collecting the palette
- Divide the colors of the palette into individual frames in a GIF
- Filter out the unappealing prototypes using human judgment
After creating four collections, it is easy to identify the artist who used the palettes. David Milne would use aggressive impressionistic colors. Andy Warhol tends to the essence of highlighting hues and so on.
Painting derivatives in an endless loop wasn't the goal of the collection. Grabbing the essence of the painters imagination seems to be best expressed in an endless loop.