100 Oil Paintings After Pissarro — Each Composed by AI, Painted by Hand
RAD-GEN.001 is a hundred oil paintings after Camille Pissarro. The composition is generated. The painting is not. The edition rides on one question: now that a machine can fake the feeling of a sunset, what is the hand still for?
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, July 31, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — The Church of Conceptual Art has released RAD-GEN.001, a hundred small oil paintings that pit the newest way of making an image against one of the oldest.
Each painting begins as a study generated by a model trained on the late landscapes of Camille Pissarro, the Impressionist. It is then painted in oil, on a twelve-inch canvas, by Kim Van Do, who has painted landscapes from life for fifty years.
The split is the whole point. The machine does the seeing. The man does the painting. The edition asks which part ...