Any art style becomes generic if repeated enough. Having now seen a bunch of Ghiblified images, I find them as emptily cloying as a Thomas Kinkade. When you can just push the button to get another, and another, like Kinkade did without a computer, it renders the thing meaningless. What are such images for, when all the specificity of the scene they are supposed to be illustrating has been scrubbed off?
Have some Bouguereau! Long dead and safely out of copyright.
“A traditional American barn dance, in the style of William-Adolphe Bouguereau.”
Any art style becomes generic if repeated enough. Having now seen a bunch of Ghiblified images, I find them as emptily cloying as a Thomas Kinkade. When you can just push the button to get another, and another, like Kinkade did without a computer, it renders the thing meaningless. What are such images for, when all the specificity of the scene they are supposed to be illustrating has been scrubbed off?
Have some Bouguereau! Long dead and safely out of copyright.
“A traditional American barn dance, in the style of William-Adolphe Bouguereau.”