Repetition Robert Stratton aka madbutter

Robert Stratton aka madbutter is an artist who is part of a burgeoning community of contemporary artists united by their use of generative artificial intelligence (GAN). This new group is conceptually and aesthetically diverse except for their use of GAN, which is a constantly evolving medium made up of the living stuff of the internet, “an intelligent pixel soups” (Alan Warburton). The appearance of this new form of art often references dystopia, fantasy, modernism and inmadbutter’s case, surrealism. His imaginative creatures bear resemblance to the painted populations of Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Bruegel. Their bodies are a trippy pixel soup, combining the art of Max Ernst, Odilon Redon, and Leonora Carrington with the fleshy forms of Peter Paul Rubens and Michelangelo. GANS harness this mixture and, in the hands of a skilled artist, “The Idea (can) become the machine of Art” (Sol Lewitt).