15/10/2021
A n**e portrait of a crouching woman has been discovered beneath the surface of a painting by Pablo Picasso, titled The Blind Man's Meal, housed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and thanks to Artificial Intelligence and 3D printing it has been recreated.
This is The Lonesome Crouching N**e, initially revealed in part by a superimposed X-ray fluorescence image; the recreation of this hidden work is thanks to Oxia Palus, a company that uses technology to bring lost art back to life. To succeed, the company used XRF imaging and image processing to try to define the outline of the hidden painting; then Artificial Intelligence stepped in and added brush strokes to the portrait in the famous artist's style.
The next step was to create a height map of the portrait to give it texture, and finally the image was printed on canvas using 3D printing.