AI imagines what the world’s most famous artists would have made of container shipping
The year 1956 is widely considered the moment when container shipping was born. On April 26 that year, American trucking entrepreneur Malcom McLean put 58 trailer vans aboard a refitted tanker ship, the SS Ideal X, and sailed them from Newark, New Jersey to Houston, Texas.
The same year has a few similarities with today’s troubled shipping scene – Israeli troops invaded the Sinai Peninsula and the Suez Crisis occurred.
1956 was also the year Jackson Pollock, an American figure in the abstract expressionist movement, passed away, aged 44 in a car crash.
The creators of the always entertaining Maritime Analytica substack have used artificial intelligence to take subscribers on an artistic odyssey where container shipping becomes a canvas for the echoes of painters including Pollock above.
Among other painters Maritime Analytica has reimagined giving their impression of container shipping include Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Munch, Rembrandt, Turner and Dali.
The shipping artwork has similarities to an interactive London gallery event Splash covered in late 2020 where well-known artworks were reimagined to depict a zero-carbon maritime future. The Future Seascapes exhibition saw art by Turner, Monet and Van Gogh displayed side by side with zero carbon interpretations of each scene.
Total garbage.
I am an Artist who is not much into technology, old school, and do stay away from AI as much as I can, but I find this fascinating and love the pieces. Awesome!
I have sailed with a number of “artists “ over the years…..
As a maritime artists, I really love them all and was inspired as they remind us the world-famous painters on earth, please keep creating such news from Maritime Analytica.
It’s really eye-opening & create an authentic ai-art via ships
awesome!!!
Excellent, how can we reach the creators of Maritime Analytica?
Hilarious…
These are digital age’s masterpieces, very inspirational…
Love them all…