![]() ![]() The blindness of Griet's father symbolizes a number of things. When Cornelia breaks the tile, it symbolizes the inevitable reality that Griet will change and grow as a result of the challenges to which she is exposed, and that her relationship to her family will shift over time. It also proves more difficult than expected for her to retain a connection with her family as her worldview expands and grows. However, Griet's exposure to Vermeer's more sophisticated works of art makes her aware of the limitations of this piece. The image reflects her father's affection for his children, and when she takes it with her to the Vermeer household, it represents a commitment to not losing sight of who she is and where she comes from. “Well, she is beautiful in the (Rijksmuseum) exhibition… But we will be very happy when she is at home.The tile that Griet's father gives her symbolizes her connection to her family and to her roots. The painting’s fame has increased in recent years due to a 1999 novel by US author Tracy Chevalier and an ensuing Hollywood film. The Mauritshuis was looking forward to the return of the real “Girl” in April, he added. Elderly people sometimes say we like the more traditional paintings.” “Younger people tend to say, it’s artificial intelligence, what’s new. Visitors to the Mauritshuis were equally divided, he added. He admitted though that “up close, you see that the freckles are a little spooky.” “We’re not the museum to discuss if AI belongs in an art museum.” “Our opinion is, we think it’s a nice picture, we think it’s a creative process,” he said. “It’s such a difficult question - what is art, and what is not art?” said the Mauritshuis’s de Munnick.īut he insisted that the museum, whose collection boasts three Vermeers and nearly a dozen Rembrandts, had not deliberately set out to make an artistic statement on AI. “Without the work of human artists, this program could not generate works at all,” she was quoted as saying by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.ĪLSO READ: Banksy unveils new ‘Valentine’s Day Mascara’ artwork ‘WHAT IS ART?’ One artist said on the Instagram feed for the Mauritshuis exhibition that it was a “shame and an incredible insult”, and dozens of others piled in.Ī common complaint was that AI tools can breach the copyright of other artists by using their works as the base for artificially generated images.Īrtist Eva Toorenent, of the European Guild for Artificial Intelligence Regulation, criticised what she called the “unethical technology”. The budding artists ranged in age from three to 94, depicting the “Girl” in diverse styles ranging from a puppet to a dinosaur and a piece of fruit.īut the decision to choose an AI-generated image sparked a backlash. “It’s surreal to see it in a museum,” van Dieken wrote on Instagram.ĪLSO READ: Vermeer shines at ‘once in history’ Amsterdam show The Mauritshuis then chose it as one of five images out of 3,482 submitted by fans that would be printed and physically hung in the room where “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is normally housed. Van Dieken said he had used the AI tool Midjourney - which can generate complex pictures on the basis of a prompt, using millions of images from the internet - and Photoshop. ![]() ![]() ALSO READ: Five things to know about Vermeer ‘INCREDIBLE INSULT’īerlin-based digital creator Julian van Dieken submitted the image after the Mauritshuis asked people to send in their versions of the famous painting for an installation called “My Girl with a Pearl”.
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