Hacker News with Generative AI: Painting

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s) (publicdomainreview.org)
Michalina Janoszanka (1889–1952) is an artist better known for her role on the other side of the canvas, as the muse and mentee of famed Polish painter Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929).
Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece (bbc.com)
The recent discovery of an art forger's workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple rules to work them out.
Vilhelm Hammershøi: the eminence in greys (richardmorris.org)
Thirty years ago, it wasn’t easy tracking down Vilhelm Hammershøi. Many of his paintings remained in private hands and unless you went to Copenhagen, you were unlikely to come across more than a couple hanging together. Now, a painter who was bypassed and undervalued for several decades is everywhere and value of his work has sky-rocketed. Over the last six years, auction prices for his paintings have exceeded £4 million ($5 million) on multiple occasions.
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes (publicdomainreview.org)
The feast laid out is lavish, but the table is so overladen, there is no space to dine. This is the somewhat absurd scenario staged by the tablescapes of Dutch banquet still life paintings.
Picasso was suspected of stealing the 'Mona Lisa' (newyorker.com)
In 1911, the world’s most famous painting was stolen from the Louvre.
Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting (scrtwpns.com)
Kitagawa Utamaro Japanese Painter (theartstory.org)
In a relatively short, but prolific, career Utamaro emerged as one of the greatest masters of late eighteenth-century Japanese art.
Gustav Klimt's Obsession with Gold (artnet.com)
Gustav Klimt made gold modern.