Obvious Art

Obvious Art is a Paris-based collective founded by Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel, and Gauthier Vernier, known for producing artworks generated through artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. The collective gained international attention in 2018 when their AI-generated portrait 'Edmond de Belamy' sold at Christie's for $432,500, far exceeding its estimate and sparking widespread debate about authorship, creativity, and the role of AI in contemporary art. Their practice centers on training generative adversarial networks (GANs) on historical art datasets to produce works that challenge conventional notions of artistic originality and value.