Thread by @k_tastrof

In December, let’s practice the art of writing by writing about art.
1 day
1 word
1 story : science fiction🚀
fantastic👻
or fantasy 🗡️
In one thread to be part of the moment
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1/ Brush
"What the hell is this?" the archeologist asked.
The artefact looked like a hair brush, but smaller.
"Perhaps this was for their mustache" he thought doubtfully.
How could he even imagine a toothbrush?
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2/Paint
Painting had become an AI activity during a few years. But people got tired of the virtual landscapes, the symmetric portraits and the strange animals.
The painting schools are re-opening and the human made pictures are highly valued.
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3/Sketch
My sister is unable to understand what people say without making it a sketch.
That's funny, especially with abstract ideas which she draws as if they were strange animals or objects.
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4/Canvas
When they were told that some painters used their art to pass messages, the policemen started to scratch the canvas.
They found nothing.
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5/Charcoal
In the rich countries, charcoal has become a luxury good that people use to cook meat at summer barbecues and to ease their digestive functions the rest of the time.
They don't know that we produce it for them, with our everyday charcoal.
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6/Anamorphosis
Learning to paint is difficult, but not in the same ways for humans and robots. The former struggle with technical issues like perspective or anamorphosis, when the latter don't understand how to represent emotions.
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7/Frame
The way you frame the problems don't help you to find any solutions, the psychologist said.
The client thought the therapist didn't understand him. He decided to try and find another one.
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8/Chromatic
Post chromatic stress disorder is the new name given to the Stendhal syndrome, the psychic confusion that occurs when you face a tremendously beautiful artwork.
It's believed that the harmony of colours is responsible for that condition.
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9/Grey
At birth, all the robots are grey. When they have learnt enough to know who they are, they can choose another color. Few of them keep their original color. Most of them change their choice two or three times in their life.
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10/Shades
Being depressed isn't experiencing a uniformly grey taste of the world. It's, in fact, meeting, in  same day, many different shades of sadness and despair.
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11/Color chart
The aliens were surprised by the poverty of the color chart used for the human children's toys. Blue and pink, above all. But they couldn't understand how the children were supposed to choose their color.
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12/ Pigments
On this planet, we've eventually found the violet people and the green with red spots people we so often talked about on earth to prove that we weren't racist. But we don't know if those are their true colors, or something made of  plant pigments.
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13/Flat tint
What I call flat tint is the most common opinion and way of life. The uniform thinking on which any authentic conviction seems garish and violent.
Dreaming of drowning in the flat tint isn't what I'd call ambitious.
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14/Crack
It's often the last sound you hear before they decide you're too dangerous to serve humans.
Crack, when you break a plate.
Crack, when you walk on one of them or their pets.
Crack, and you're done.
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15/ Knife painting
Paintings by non painters is a trend nowadays.
My local butcher has closed his butchery.
He's now a knife painter.
Believe it or not, his favourite color is red.
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16/Reed pen
Of course, robots can do calligraphy, but they are better with a fountain pen than with a reed pen.
Their wrist isn't flexible enough.
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17/Patina
Since buying new objects has become unpopular, many bags, clothes and other products come with a fake patina to seem older than they are.
This is costing us precious resources.
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18/Turpentine
As a robot, I sometimes drink alcohol, but what I really like is having a glass of turpentine. It cleanses my gullet and ease my general functioning.
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19/Palette
Everybody can buy any kind of dream, but if you are not able to pay for the best options, you'll have to be content with a limited palette of colors.
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20/Wash drawing
Contrary to humans, the robot citizens disliked AI-made pictures. They were fond of wash drawings and oil paintings that they bought for nothing at flea markets.
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21/Glazing
Double glazing windows are a good way to save energy.
Our triple glazing window has, also, an intelligent screen which uses the available information to build a picture, better than the outside, to preserve your mental health.
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22/Stencil
Teenage humans often get tattoos, which they later regret. Meanwhile, robots can easily use stencils to make erasable paintings all over their body.
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23/Dab
He'd like to eat a radish with a little dab of  salted butter. But he can't. It has become impossible to find a radish in this town and even if it wasn't so, he no more has a mouth or a body.
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24/Diptych
When the artist started to make diptych, triptych and polyptych, people said it was something about the way he saw the world.
Personally, I think it's all about making more money.
You make the same painting, then you cut it in 2, 3 or more...
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25/Etching
We don't recommend etching your lover's name on the metal of your arm. the problem is the same as for human tattoos. Life changes, love comes and goes/ Don't forge your tomorrow's regrets today.
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26/Fresco
In the middle of Robotown, there's a special building with a painted wall. It's a huge fresco showing the history of humanity, from homo erectus till robots era.
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27/Street art
They first tried to criminalize the graffiti artists, which had no effect. Then, they started to put their work in museums. That way, they killed street art.
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28/Abstract art
Nowadays, it's rather difficult to distinguish human made art from AI made art. Except for abstract art.
There's always this indefinable something in the human creations.
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29/Artist
In the robots society, all the broken individuals deserve to be mended.
When there is no possible fixing, they are declared «artists», and some really are.
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30/Decorative border
I don't understand why humans need to build stone tombs with plaques showing their names and decorative borders.
They're still decaying under the stone.
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31/Private view
Now that all our messages are watched, some of us use the dual view feature: one content is a trivial message, for the bots, the other is the coded private view, for the actual recipient.
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