Joseph Nathan Cohen

Department of Sociology, CUNY Queens College, New York, NY

Synthetism

Generating images in the style of Synthetism.

This post is an installment in the Generative AI Art Style series, a practical knowledge project designed to help content creators fine-tune the aesthetics of their generated images by references to and descriptions of popular art styles.  Click here to read more on the project.

This page depicts the results of mentioning Synthetism in your prompt. Click here to learn about this project

Click here for this visual art style’s Wikipedia page

Generated Thick Descriptor (via Chat-GPT 4): Synthetist art, pioneered by artists like Paul Gauguin, features an emphasis on two-dimensional flat patterns and synthesis of artists’ feelings, natural forms, and aesthetic purity of line, color, and form. Artists create a new, complex product through these combinations. To mimic this style, arrange colors on a flat surface in a way that emanates personal emotions and abstract representations of natural forms. Avoid mimicking realism, favoring symbolic, and exaggerated depictions instead.

he table below depicts New York City’s Times Square and Northern Ontario’s Lake Kenogamissi. The left column shows the results of a “thin” prompt, in which the style was requested in name only. The right column shows the results of a “thick” prompt, in which the generated prompt was used.

 ThinThick
Lake
Times Square

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These images show what Generative AI renders when one requests that an image be rendered in well-known art styles. This series does not purport to describe major art styles as understood in the art scholarship community. If you have expertise in art and want to explain why these images do or do not capture the essence of these fields, then please do so in the comments section below.