AI Used to Reproduce Lost Picasso Nude - Neuroscience News

Summary: A painting of a naked woman by Picasso has been hidden under one of his "Blue Period" works for almost a century. With the help of artificial intelligence, researchers have been able to reproduce the lost painting. A painting of a naked woman by Pablo Picasso that has been hidden beneath one of his'Blue Period' masterpieces for more than a century, has been recreated by UCL scientists using a combination of X-rays, AI and 3D-printing. PhD researchers Anthony Bourached (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) and George Cann (UCL Space and Climate Physics) have developed a five-step technology to reproduce art works, that have been painted over. For this, their third reproduction, they bought back to life the Spanish artist's depiction of a crouching nude woman; the painting was thought to have been lost until 2010 when X-rays revealed it lay behind The Blind Man's Meal. Dubbed'The Lonesome Crouching Nude', the image is also depicted as an unfinished painting in the background of Picasso's famous La Vie (The Life).