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Isamu Noguchi Futurist Portrait
Artist and Designer
"To be hybrid anticipates the future."
-- Isamu Noguchi
Description: A portrait of Isamu Noguchi. The portrait is digitally created based on a photograph. Noguchi is a middle aged, Japanese American man with very short, balding hair. He looks very seriously at the viewer. The portrait has colorful abstract shapes that make up the painting's foreground and background.
Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) had an incredibly flexible mind. During his long career he turned his talents to sculpture, theater sets, playgrounds, lighting, and much more. The Radio Nurse shown here is part of an early remote monitoring system he designed. It was used to ensure that a baby, or someone in need of medical care, was safe in another room. Noguchi's design was influenced by masks used in Japanese Kendo (a type of martial art) and American nurse's headdresses, reflecting his own split Japanese American identity.
Credit: This portrait was made by artist Nettrice Gaskins using Deep Dream Generator, a computer vision program that uses artificial intelligence to generate new and complex images. |