Mr. Shan

How can traditional art stage a comeback in the digital wave?



The rise of AI has brought both challenges and opportunities to traditional art. While AI painting can imitate techniques, it fails to reveal the true core value of art which is the irreplaceable human creativity. Just as photography gave rise to the impressionist revolution, AI is now driving art creation back to essential thinking.

The competitiveness of traditional art lies in its unique emotional depth and creative logic. AI generates content based on human instructions, although it is rich in color and vivid, it fails to highlight the artist's dominant position. Take ink wash painting as an example, the unique texture produced by the collision of Xuan paper and ink is an immediate externalization of the creator's state of mind and emotions, full of insights into life, and behind it is a profound humanistic accumulation. Such an artistic core is beyond the reach of AI. Art is not just visual presentation, but also a concrete expression of the spirit of an era.

Technological innovation is reshaping the art ecosystem, achieving a wonderful balance between upholding tradition and innovation. Designers use Midjourney to unleash their creativity, the Dunhuang murals are rejuvenated through digital restoration, and XR technology brings cultural relics to life in virtual spaces. This proves that technology not only does not dissolve traditional values, but also builds a dual value system of "digital twins + original physical works". In my opinion, the future of art will be a symbiotic relationship between humans and machines, with AI handling basic design, digital technology assisting in the transformation of commercial art, and top-notch creations becoming even more precious due to technological impact. Algorithm-generated landscapes lack the "learning from nature" source of inspiration, and mechanical arms replicating "Sunflowers" cannot convey Van Gogh's spirit. History shows that technological revolutions are opportunities for artistic transformation. After the digital wave, cultural creations that carry the light of humanity will be eternal.

When AI is over-exploited by humans to increase computing power and serves various fields in a master-servant relationship, artist Shao Fan, in his unique way, has formed the first human (intelligent labour) - machine (artificial intelligence) dialogue in the contemporary art field. His series of portraits of AI, in his works, AI is concretized from a human parallel perspective. The image of AI is no longer cold and mechanical, but rather a blend of humor and metaphor. He seems to be on the same wavelength as AI when he is painting, precisely capturing its subtle emotions. Moreover, one of his AI portraits before the launch of Deepseek even depicted the similar organ shapes of AI and humans, exploring the commonalities in the core of Chinese calligraphy - the heart and nature. Through his brushstrokes, he shows the deep connection across the boundaries between humans and machines. In the current wave of mathematics, Shao Fan affectionately writes cells for AI, kindly endowing it with human warmth.

傳統藝術如何在數字浪潮中逆襲?



AI的崛起為傳統藝術帶來了挑戰與機遇。AI繪畫雖能模仿技法,卻揭示不出藝術真正的核心價值——不可復製的人文創造力。就像攝影催生印象派革新,AI正推動藝術創作回歸本質的思考。

傳統藝術的競爭力,來自獨特的情感深度與創作邏輯。AI依賴人類指令生成內容,雖然色彩豐富,活靈活現,卻彰顯不出藝術家的主體地位。以水墨畫為例,宣紙與筆墨碰撞產生的獨特肌理,是創作者心境與情感的即時外化,飽含對生命的感悟,其背後是深厚的人文積澱。這般藝術內核,AI難以企及。藝術可不只是視覺呈現,更是一個時代精神的具象化表達。

技術革新正重塑藝術生態,在守正與創新間達成奇妙平衡。設計師借Midjourney 釋放創意,敦煌壁畫借數字復原重煥生機,XR技術讓文物在虛擬空間新生。這證明,技術非但未消解傳統價值,還構建起「數字孿生+實體原作」的雙重價值體系。在我看來,未來藝術會走向人機協同共生,AI負責基礎設計,數字技術助力商業藝術轉型,頂尖創作因技術沖擊愈發珍貴。算法生成山水缺「外師造化」的心源,機械臂復製《向日葵》難傳梵高精神,歷史表明,技術革命是藝術蛻變的契機,數字浪潮過後,承載人性光輝的文化創造才是永恒。

當AI被人類過度壓榨提高算量,以主仆關系服務於各個領域時,藝術家邵帆以他特有的方式形成了當代藝術領域的首個:人(智能人工)機(人工智能)對話,他的作品給人工智能畫的肖像系列,在他的筆下,以人類平行視角具象「AI」,AI的形象不再冰冷機械,無影無形,而是幽默與隱喻並存。作畫時,他仿佛與AI腦波同頻,精準捕捉其微妙情緒。不僅如此,他在deep seek上線之前的一幅AI肖像,還勾勒出AI與人類似曾相似的器官形態,挖掘出二者在中國書法核心——心性上的共通之處,借畫筆展現人機之間跨越界限的深度聯結。在數學浪潮的當下,邵帆親切的為AI書寫出細胞,友好地附予它人類的溫度。

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