{"id":1309,"date":"2025-12-02T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:28:40","slug":"painter-goblin-becoming-corporeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/painter-goblin-becoming-corporeal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Painter Goblin: Becoming Corporeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you move country you have to be prepared to change quite a lot about your life. Back at the end of 2020, apart from literally everything else going<\/em> on my partner and I also moved from Canada to Germany.<\/p>\n

For me, this was my fifth or so international move (including shorter temporary stays) in as many years.<\/p>\n

Being able to pick up sticks and move like that means living a drastically minimized life. Most of the things you have fit in a suitcase. Most of the things you have are small, and largely not overly whimsical. Sure, you can fit a few treasures into your bag, but you learn to value small ones, not things you might otherwise use to decorate an entire apartment!!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

So, what do you do when you do have an apartment to decorate?<\/p>\n

You ask the best known painter in your family<\/a> to conjure some magic, The Painter Goblin!<\/p>\n

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The Painter Goblin<\/h2>\n

As we have covered in this blog many times now, the Painter Goblin was a Twitter Bot that existed for a short period of time when Twitter was a nice place to be (at least, nicer).<\/p>\n

The Painter Goblin painted new derivative, remixed works of art from open access images that could be found on Wikidata. Tweeting many times a day for over four years, there was a lot to choose from and while I had some favorite pieces that were output by the bot it was all very heterogeneous and because of the different palettes employed, looks even more disparate from one another. It was difficult to curate a coherent set of objects to decorate a room.<\/p>\n

I would keep track of The Painter Goblin’s Tweets and I noticed one collection in-particular would come up very often, that of scanned newspaper pages featuring the work of the French painter and caricaturist Honor\u00e9 Daumier, see this Twitter Search<\/a> (sign-in required).<\/p>\n

I had noticed a curious property of the caricatures that had often been digitized at The National Gallery in Washington DC.<\/p>\n

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Thinking about writing a showcase blog on the increasing series of #Daumier<\/a> caricatures from @ngadc<\/a> – love the original vs. the bleed through captured by @paintergoblin<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd8c\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/4UWaeswtYE<\/a>#Caricature<\/a> #Print<\/a> #PainterGoblin<\/a> #RemixArt<\/a> #Digitization<\/a> #CreativeCommons<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/DtKl3DgFdZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \ud83d\udcbe\ud83d\udc9c #Digital<\/a> \u2693\ufe0f #Vagabond<\/a> \ud83d\udc9c\ud83d\udcbe (@beet_keeper) February 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n