Julian AI art: "Let me tell you something surreal: My #AI image is hanging in a museum. In the Vermeer room where the original "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" usually hangs.
Yes, I'm serious 😳
Okay… why and how?
Let me explain.
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But first, a disclaimer, which is "I think this is crazy!" 😆 I have to get this out of the way before I tell you anything else, because this is basically as surreal for me as it might be for you.
This account had exactly 20 followers at the beginning of October 2022. Now, 4 months later, there are not only more than 1,200 times more of you here, but there's also an image I created with Midjourney and shared with you, hanging in one of the most prestigious spots in the world.
An image you may have seen in your timeline, maybe even liked or commented on. This feels, quite frankly, completely surreal (in a good way 😅).
With that out of the way, this is how it came to be:
The @mauritshuis_museum in #TheHague usually exhibits paintings by the old masters. Rembrandt, Judith Leyster, Jan Vermeer, and more. The true OGs of art history, as sophisticated art critics would say. The Mauritshuis' most famous piece?
The Girl With the Pearl Earring.
Currently, there's a major Vermeer exhibition at Amsterdam's @rijksmuseum. Maybe you've heard of the event? The demand for tickets is wild. So, basically every Vermeer artwork you know got shipped from museums all over the world to Amsterdam.
This leaves "The Girl's" spot in The Hague empty for a couple of months. And so the museum created a contest called @mygirlwithapearl. Everyone could enter their own version of the famous painting, be it as a photo, a drawing, a knitted homage, you name it.
I also entered my version, which I created with #MidJourney and Photoshop. Because someone of YOU told me about this contest (Please tell me who that was! I don't remember!).
3,500 images were sent in; 170 are being displayed in a digital frame; and 5 were "fine art printed" and framed.
My image is among those 5.
And… here we are 😅
(There's more to the story! but due to Insta's word limit, I'll continue in the comments ⬇️)"
