This picture is quite convincing, but something strange caught my eye. At her ankles it looks like she is wearing stockings but at her knees it looks like bare skin. Reverse image search is not getting me to any original painting. All seems to indicate this is AI slop from Pinterest that got endlessly reposted.
Still after all this time, it's the hands (as well):
ZOOM IN, ENHANCE!
I agree. The first thing that tipped me off was that legs were drawn according to modern standards of beauty. The second thing was that shoe transitioning* into skin, which happens often with AI generated images.
thicc calves weren't sexy back then?
You'll be hard pressed to find an actual painting of that time period that shows a woman's thighs.
Not in combination with those anime-esque thin knees and ankles.
I hate that several times now I have stumbled across pictures I really liked, only to find out they're AI. Disappointed in myself and kind of scared how appealing these can get now
Yup, the position of the feet is kind of bizarre (how is her left foot in the foreground like that? And there's that weird wisp of dress between her legs that doesn't seem natural. Then I noticed the legs fade into stockings and that man's left ankle appears to be broken lol
Of course it is AI generated. Some painting style and some photorealistic elements in a wild mix.
One thing I hate about AI art is the obvious influence of a lot of anime in body proportions
Agreed. There also seems to be loads of very similarly posed images that come up in reverse search which are much more clearly AI generated. This one is quite convincing though, unfortunately.
Best we can do is a Republican fever dream.
This particular woman, according to her dress, had rights way above the norms of that time. And modern norms too.
All memes aside, that’s a beautiful painting.
Unfortunately, this isn't a painting. Just AI slop...
And, as per my interpretation, this goes against rule 2 of this community.
If so, this is impressive AI slop
But you already do though, according to the picture (Way more rights than you want to admit)
i think they want them for everybody else as well, maybe?
An aristocrat ? 😂
well yeah there used to be a concept of "noblesse obligee" which basically means "from everybody according to their abilities" - in the aristocrat context, it means that the higher-ups should care about their people because they can afford to, not because they're forced to. it was no always implemented, of course, but the concept was there.
noblesse oblige* (which means literally "nobility obliges"). And the idea is that as a noble, you should behave with nobility, which includes caring for the people you hold power over, and generally the poors.
But people abiding by this concept would probably have seen nothing wrong with the fact that some people are born into poverty, with someone lording over them, and that it was basically impossible for them to ever become nobles. So, not quite "from everybody according to their abilities" , imo.
A Lemmy community for historic art pieces overhauled into modern memes.
