For those who don’t know, this piece is titled ‘Unfinished Painting’, by Keith Haring. He painted it about a year before his death of AIDs. I believe he actually finished other pieces between this one and his death. He left the majority of the canvas blank to represent his life and art career cut short due to HIV/AIDs. This was a deliberate choice and commentary about all that we lose (both personally and culturally) by ignoring the AIDs crisis at the time (1989). He was devastated he didn’t have time to make more art. 'Finishing’ Unfinished Painting is straight up spitting on Haring’s grave and shows no understanding to the meaning behind the art. The AI interpretation doesn’t even follow his extremely recognizable shape language and symbols. This is why people are angry about AI art. All commerce images and no meaning or humanity
The tweet is a joke. It’s making that exact point. It’s part of a series of tongue-in-cheek tweets using AI art to completely and totally misunderstand the point of the art in 'improving’ it, and this tweet has been taken out of that context and turned into rage bait. Nobody’s seriously suggesting that 'completing’ Unfinished Painting with AI is valuable. The tweet is railing against AI art. You’re agreeing with it. There’s nothing to get angry at here.
ironically the amount of anger at it proves it qualifies as transgressive art
