CharlesAI is a French doctor and artist who uses AI image-generation tools to create paintings that adopt the visual codes of classicist history painting to address contemporary political, economic and social issues.,He began making AI art in early 2021 with VQGAN+CLIP,,initially as a way to relieve the stress of working emergency-room shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic.,
He has exhibited at the MoCa Gallery and IHAM Art Gallery in Paris, in Rome with the AI-Infused Art collective he co-founded, and at Art Basel Miami,,and co-organized the first European physical AI art exhibition, held in Nice with Diapo Gallery.His work has been discussed on BFMTV and published in Beaux Arts magazine,,and has been used to teach AI art at institutions including NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.,
His Museum series, made for KnownOrigin and SuperRare, addresses climate change and pollution.The Empire of Indulgence belongs to a series of four AI-made paintings inspired by Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire (1833–1835). It denounces the hedonism of Western civilization and the instability it could cause, presenting itself as a portrait of contemporary society rather than a science-fiction scene.
He was commissioned by a private collector to imagine that collector's digital art collection displayed inside a Renaissance-style villa.One of his pieces, The Architect, combines Greek and Roman architecture with landscape elements and crypto-art themes to depict a figure rebuilding the crypto industry,and sold in a private sale for 5 ETH.
