Doug Marx and Luke Kelly's Vangobot

The painting robot called Vangobot is simply awesome. It is the rare breed of art creating robot that actually leaves behind an aesthetically pleasing piece of art. Most robots make abstract art or are performance pieces.

This is of course a self serving statement as I have made a similar robot, but just take a look at this one compared to mine. What I found most interesting is that while both myself and the artist/programming team made this with the same sort of approach, our robots are different in a number of ways, least of which stylistically. Their robot paints with multiple brushes and smoothly mixes colors with one another. Even though we share a basic approach our robots have their own style.

Vangobot makes what look to be impressionistic paintings. Smooth flowing strokes compared to my harsh and rigid straight lines. While I can do curves, I like the cross-hatching effect of mine. Similarly while Vangobot can probably do straight lines, it prefers algorithms that swirl paints onto the canvas.

What will be interesting as more and more artists realize how cool painting robots can be is to see all the styles that pop out of them. Unlike what I expect the public would think is going to happen, I bet each robot is as unique and different from one another as Vangobot is from my painting robot.

Almost like a personality.

If you have purchased one of mine, I highly suggest you get something from these guys and start a modern painting robot art collection. I guarantee you there will be many more entries into this genre in the coming years…

Picasso, Warhol, and Robot

Warhol once said he wanted to paint like a robot. Painting robots now make his wish possible. This piece is a robot’s interpretation of a Picasso as may have been executed by Warhol.

Warhol Picasso and Robot (58"x18")

Big claim of course, and probably not true. Well the part where it was painted by my robot is true.

I took an image of Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and fed it into my robots algorithms. It then came up with the painting you see above. Cool thing about when my robot paints though is that it then is able to repaint the image in a similar manner. This was done to make the three canvas triptych. If you look at each image, you will see slight differences. It is sort of a print, but unique. A close up of one of the three canvases can be seen below.

Like all my work with the robot, this is for sale to support further robotic art development. You can also click here to see other robot generated paintings.