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I used to think the hardest part of selling art was getting people to walk into the gallery. Then the internet showed up and proved me wrong. Now the hardest part is being seen by machines before humans ever lay eyes on your work.
I have spent more than half a century watching people argue about what “real art” is. I heard it when photography became popular. I heard it when acrylic paint showed up and smelled like a hardware store. I heard it again when digital art first appeared and people swore the soul had officially left the room.
Now here we are again, this time with AI.
When someone buys a traditional sketch, acrylic, or oil painting, they are buying several things at once.
I have been painting trees, mountains, rivers, skies, and whatever poor soul decided to sit still long enough since before most people knew what a computer mouse was. I have ruined good shoes with acrylic paint, nearly poisoned myself with oil paint fumes in tiny studios, and sharpened more pencils than I care to remember. So when people ask me whether AI generated nature art is “real art,” I laugh first. Then I answer properly.