Sunset Painting, 2025

APRIL 2025 – AI generated image showing a sunset at a beach with an old boat, pop-art style. © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com/Photo: ChatGPT

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Generative AI in Art

Recently I discovered generative AI for photography, and I had a lot of fun with it. I already created images of an action figure showing myself, a beautiful sunset at the beach, and an exciting sunset over the harbour of Kos in Greece.

Here is yet another result from this excercise. Now, I asked ChatGPT to create a painting from the beautiful sunset image it had already created for me but now in the style of pop-art icon Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997). Here’s the prompt:

Create an image from the uploaded file that looks like a painting by Roy Lichtenstein and keep the aspect ratio of 4 (width) to 3 (height).

(Please feel free to try the prompt with other artist names.)

I am not shocked any longer that the result looks very, very good great. The machine not only a created a nice photo out of nothing (well, nothing but my prompt). It also created a stunning artwork out of nothing (i.e., just another prompt.) So, one could say that it created the entire piece out of nothing. Isn’t that what art is all about?

I know that this is not true. The machine “understood” the style requested and applied it to the photo. There is a hot debate going on whether generative AI works qualify as art, or whether it simply generates a regurgitated mass of (boring) pixels?

I am undecided. But I love this result.

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Design ideas

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The high resolution image

Creation Date	14-APR-2025
Creator	Mark Zanzig, based on an AI generated image by ChatGPT
Location	Munich, Germany
Digital Image Source	ChatGPT
Digital Image Source Format	JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB
Edited Image Format	JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB
Edited Image Dimensions	1536 x 1024 Pixels
Copyright	© Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com/Photo: ChatGPT