Token ID 371

I fell in love with the wild, beautiful, uncanny and profound results that came with the first round of Eponym. With Stories, I began to explore what result would come telling Ai that this was ""for a museum"".

One of the first results was 'for the museum of modern art' which looked like an abstract landscape hanging on a white wall but it also had a 3d element that was breaking the fourth wall of perspective. It felt like the perfect piece to represent modern Ai driven art with the intent of being FOR a museum. It even came with what looks like an information placard about the art hanging on the wall in lower right corner of the frame.

For subsequent stories, I picked museums I've been to that inspire me and tried many permutations for the art. The ones that stood out were ones that looked like they might belong in the museum referenced but also said something to the museum about its history, its present and its future. To me, each piece honors the museum's style but also says something about the art within its walls that can be interpreted in myriad ways.

'for the louvre' has a similar feeling of breaking the fourth wall. The frame and walls evoke an Egyptian artifact that was taken by Napoleon himself and brought to Paris. It was too rich in artificial mystique to pass up.

'for the guggenheim' looks like a pen and ink masterpiece Peggy herself would hang on the walls of her spiral halls. The touches of blue in the black and white figures is striking.

In 'for the smithsonian' I was looking for something American that also evoked the 'shining city on the hill'. The result that came looks like a sketch that George Washington or one of his officers may have sketched in their journal during the American Revolution.

With 'for the van gogh museum' I had originally set out to show how the Ai could recreate or construct a new Van Gogh painting. There were many impressive options but then the result you see here popped up. While not in the style of Van Gogh, it seems to reference the artist himself, it looks like a portion of one of his self-portraits but it also seems to be saying something. Perhaps that Van Gogh is still with us, his haunting blue eye, watching the progress of art and humanity and culture. The cryptic signature on the bottom right. The DaVinci like canvas it's painted on. I don't know. I just couldn't pass up minting it.

I mean, come on, 'for the picasso museum in barcelona' looks like late-era Picasso painting, celebrating the spirit of Spanish life as well as the freedom of how children are free with their art. To me, what's minted looks like what Picasso might have painted today and perhaps minted to the chain.

'for the dali museum in paris' to me, looks like two elongated figures embracing, intertwined; surreal and Jungian, the integration of the psyche, of the self, the id and ego, the light and shadow, together as one.

'for the national gallery' made me laugh. I kept trying to create a new JMW Turner painting, something quintessentially British, and there were some good options, but then this popped up and it just looked like someone hung the painting up backwards and we were looking at the back of the frame. It also had great shading for the back of the painting.

As for the title, this belongs in a museum, it's a reference to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, when he rescues the Cross of Coronado...

Enjoy.

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