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“#AI used to reproduce ‘lost’ Picasso nude<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Left: X-ray of lost “Lonesome Crouching Nude”\u00a0found beneath Picasso’s “The Blind Man’s Meal.” Credit: Estate of Pablo Picasso. Right: Full color recreation. Credit: Oxia Palus.
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A painting of a naked woman by Pablo Picasso that has been hidden beneath one of his “Blue Period’ masterpieces for more than a century has been recreated by UCL scientists using a combination of X-rays, AI and 3D printing.<\/p>\n

Ph.D. researchers Anthony Bourached (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) and George Cann (UCL Space and Climate Physics) have developed a five-step technology<\/a> to reproduce art works that have been painted over.<\/p>\n

For this, their third reproduction, they bought back to life the Spanish artist’s depiction of a crouching nude woman; the painting was thought to have been lost until 2010 when X-rays revealed it lay behind “The Blind Man’s Meal.”<\/p>\n

Dubbed “The Lonesome Crouching Nude,” the image is also depicted as an unfinished painting in the background of Picasso’s famous “La Vie” (The Life).<\/p>\n

By using a combination of spectroscopic imaging, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing, the duo have created a full-size, full-color painting, which includes 3D textured brushstrokes.<\/p>\n

To help ensure the recreation was as close in look, feel and tone to the original, they developed an AI algorithm that analyzed dozens of Picasso’s paintings and trained itself to understand the artist’s style.<\/p>\n

Commenting, Bourached, who is researching Machine Learning and Behavioural Neuroscience<\/a> at UCL, said, “We believe that Picasso likely painted over this piece with reluctance. It was common for his blue period work as it was early in his career, and materials were expensive.<\/p>\n

“Furthermore, its app<\/a>earance in the background of one of his most famous blue period pieces, ‘La Vie,’ indicates that it was likely significant to him.<\/p>\n

“I believe Picasso actively welcomed such forensics, since he himself said, ‘I just painted the images that rose before my eyes. It is for other people to find the hidden meanings.’ Like Leonardo imagining the helicopter, was Picasso envisioning technology that could recall his lost or incomplete work? It is certainly a hidden secret that ‘La Vie’ points to.”<\/p>\n

“The Blind Man’s Meal” hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and has been hailed as one of his most important works, following its completion in 1903. Art scholars had known of the earlier work, “Crouching Nude,” as it appears in “La Vie” of 1903, on display in the Cleveland Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

This is the first attempt to accurately recreate, “The Lonesome Crouching Nude,” and will feature at the inaugral “Deeep AI” festival, held at the Morf Gallery, London, this month. <\/p>\n

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\n Left: “The Blind Man’s Meal.” Credit: Estate of Pablo Picasso. Right: “La Vie,” highlighting Picasso’s other depiction of the nude. Credit: Estate of Pablo Picasso
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Cann, a UK Space Agency Ph.D. candidate at UCL researching trace gases in the Martian atmosphere, said, “I hope that Picasso would be happy in knowing the treasure he’s hidden for future generations is finally being revealed, 48 years after his death and 118 years after the painting was concealed. I also hope that the woman within the portrait would be happy in knowing that she hadn’t been erased from history and that her beauty was finally being revealed in the 21st century.
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“At the time that Picasso painted ‘The Lonesome Crouching Nude’ and ‘The Blind Man’s Meal’ he was poor and artist materials were expensive, so he likely painted over the former work with reluctance. The fact that the woman within ‘The Lonesome Crouching Nude’ is also within ‘La Vie’ and a few of Picasso’s sketches suggests that Picasso may have had an affinity towards this woman.”<\/p>\n

He added, “It’s very exciting to see a work that’s been locked up. It’s quite eerie seeing the brushstrokes, the color and the way in which lights reflects off the work. It’s a beautiful piece.”<\/p>\n

Five step technology<\/b><\/p>\n