Art and Artificial Intelligence

Is a work of art created through artificial intelligence a true work of art? What seems like a new question is as old as human history. Art and Artificial Intelligence are just the contemporary nuance of an endless debate.

History speaks of striking cases that we cannot even fully understand today. Let us start with Titian, one of the most important painters in Italic history. Well, in the 16th century, painters used to make sketches and sketches before tracing the drawing with charcoal and pencil on the final canvas. Then, finally, they would move on to color. Titian, on the other hand, uses different mixtures of color to give shape and strength to his works. A painting by addition, layer upon layer, in different times and ways.

Immortal masterpieces that were viewed differently at the time:

• ???He is not a real painter
• ???You can tell he didn't workshop
• ???This is the work of an amateur
• ???Because he doesn't work on clay like that

Do you know who the same thing happened to 300 years later? Vincent van Gogh.

In the 19th century, another artist disregarded the canons and used mean tricks. We are in Venice and talking about Canaletto, guilty of using a camera obscura to draw the perspective profiles of the city's palaces with a pencil.

Canaletto uses a tool to do what a real artist would do by hand. Not satisfied, he does not return to his vantage point each day to resume his work but finishes it in the workshop. Inaudible.

Moving on. Is a photograph art because it is taken by a photographer who knows every single setting of his equipment, every law of optics, and every artistic composition of the greats of the past? Or is it art because of the idea, the luck of being in the right place at the right time, and the particular light, despite using a low-end smartphone?

Is it not enough? Do you know that artist Maurizio Cattelan conceives and designs his works but does not make them? He pays a sculptor to create what he visualizes in his mind. So who does the work belong to? The question ended up in court.

So is an artist who uses an AI tool as if it were a paintbrush, a camera obscura, a smartphone, or another artist, creating art or bluffing? Above all, what really is art?

In the movie "Il Postino," a fantastic Massimo Troisi says, talking to Pablo Neruda's character, that "Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it; it belongs to those who need it." Perhaps art is all here: in the emotions it arouses in those who admire it and little else matters.