AI Art: UnBundled Artist: Kris Kuksi

AI Text Prompts with Unbundling Techniques help AI Text Prompt Writers avoid the tech industry standard of placing human artists names in text prompts and causing the human artists to be erased from all search platforms while replacing the human artists with AI Art Generations instead. If you are a fan of Kris Kuksi, learn more about what you like about his art practice on this article. The Unbundled AI Text Prompt Experiments with Images are at the end of this article.

Kris Kuksi (Springfield, 1973) is an American Artist in the genre of Fantastic Realism. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Painting in 1998 from Fort Hays State University in Kansas. In 2001 he completed a seminar on Studio Painting at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence Italy. In 2002 he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting Studio from Fort Hays State University.

Kris Kuksi is a living artist; please do not put his name into your AI Text Prompts without his fully informed prior consent. His website is a great place to learn about his current work and history at Kuksi.com

See my post about AI Text Prompt Unbundling Techniques and why it’s a better practice that respects human artists. Brief Explain: putting your favorite artist’s name in your AI Text Prompt can quickly harm the human artist by causing their artwork & links to their artwork to be erased and replaced in all search results with the new AI Art Generations. Please have respect and care for the human artists that inspire you by using safer AI Art Generation tactics. AI Text Prompt Tips: Unbundling Techniques

Kris’s assemblage sculptures and drawings are often seen as a commentary on the human condition and the state of the world today. Many of his assemblages and drawings explore themes of power, war and oppression. His assemblages are highly detailed & intricate, taking months and years to complete.

This post is focused on Kris’s assemblages and drawings, because his paintings deserve a dedicated post for fans that wish to learn more about them. At first glance they appear quite different from Kris’s assemblages and drawings, but a closer look reveals the strong emotions and techniques that fans of Assemblage, 3D, Sculpture might recognize.

“A postindustrial Rococo master, Kris Kuksi obsessively arranges characters and architecture with an exquisite sense of drama. Kuksi uses screaming plastic soldiers, miniature engine blocks, towering spires and assorted debris to form his land scapes. The political, spiritual,
and material conflict within these shrines is enacted under the calm gaze of remote deities and august statuary. Kuksi manages to evoke, at once, a sanctum and a mausoleum for our suffocated spirit.”

~Guillermo del Toro

The following info can be useful for creating AI Text Prompts that describe the desired features of Kris’s work without placing his name into (appropriating) the AI Text Prompts.

KRIS KUKSI INFLUENCES:

• Baroque Architecture
• Rococo Architecture
• Old World
• Modern Western Civilization
• Architecture: design, ornamental decor, relation between human form & occupancy within built structures.
• Louis Sullivan (mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright)
• H.R. Giger
• Industrialization
• Religious themes
• Historical themes
• Fantasy themes
• scenes of conflict & struggle
• Guillermo del Toro
• Watching a barn slowly collapse over the years
• Time: looking at large amount of time within a short perception of distance
• Realizing selfish human application of measuring time against nature
• Kris’s College Painting Instructor
• Chatting with people that are overlooked by society, to see the expression value in their views on life.
• Chatting with the world’s richest man over a proposal for an art installation
• Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna
• Naturhistorisches Museum of Vienna
• The MET NYC
• Museum of Fine Arts-Boston
• Louvre Museum
• Galleria Borghese
• Frick Collection

KRIS KUKSI ARTWORKS

• Kuksi.com
• Art Monographs: Kris Kuksi: Conquest
• Paintings
• Drawings
• Mouth of Hades 2004
• The Palace of Hedonism 2006
• The Plague Parade: Opus-1 2007
• Venus Admiring Mars Gun 2008
• Dharma Bovine 2009
• Portrait of a Neo-Roman Emperor 2010
• Hercules-vs-Diana 2011
• Capricorn Raising 2012
• Considerably Petite Wall Ornament Saturn 2013
• With Reverence 2014
• Considerably Petite Wall Ornament #6 2015
• Bank Tank 2016
• Victory of Perseus 2017
• Cassius 2018
• Churchtank Type 15 2019
• Suzerain 2020
• Disputed Kingdoms Chess Set 2021

KRIS KUKSI STYLE :

These words and phrases can be used when you create your AI Text Prompts when you describe what you are hoping to generate.

• a new beginning
• a new form
• a new ending
• postindustrial Rococo master
• monochrome finish on assemblage
• timeless
• avoids trends
• ‘all time together’ vision
• highly detailed ornate assemblage sculptures that feature a mix of miniature figures, machinery and found objects.
• highly detailed
• highly intricate
• elaborate
• macabre
• elegant
• delicate
• beautiful
• decadence
• decay
• beauty & decay together
• opulent lifestyle
• fake wealth persona
• acting rich
• destructive element of conditioned response to material needs
• complexity, detail and intricate imagery
• powerful and striking visual impact.
• hyper-realistic
• gothic
• combines fantasy and reality.
• surreal otherworldly aesthetic
• large complex assemblage sculptures
• many layers and elements carefully arranged to create sense of depth and movement.
• uses a variety of materials to create sense of texture and depth.
• depicts scenes of conflict and struggle
• dark brooding atmosphere
• symbolism with figures, weapons, animals to create a narrative and tell a story.
• commentary on the human condition and the state of the world today.
• explores themes of power, war, oppression.
• relates to the darker side of humanity.
• reinvent iconography.
• conflict within shrines enacted under the calm gaze of remote deities and august statuary.

KRIS KUKSI ART MEDIUMS:

These words and phrases can be used when you create your AI Text Prompts when you describe what you are hoping to generate.

• Drawing:
• Painting:
• Assemblage Sculptures:
• metal
• plastic
• wood
• figurines
• miniature engine blocks
• towering spires
• found debris
• injection molded objects
• bric-a-brac
• knick knacks
• plastic animals
• jewelry

KRIS KUKSI TECHNIQUES:

These words and phrases can be used when you create your AI Text Prompts when you describe what you are hoping to generate.

• Assemblage:
• collects objects & materials from around the world.
• assembles collection with wood, metals, various found objects.

3 UNBUNDLED AI TEXT PROMPT EXPERIMENTS:

Using the Unbundling Techniques from our previous articles along with the detailed info regarding Kris Kuksi’s influences, style and more; we can now figure out how to create AI Text Prompts that will not cause his wonderful art, brand, website links and art practice to be erased & replaced by AI Art Generations on search platforms. Unbundling techniques also provide us with new styles and never seen before visuals based on our own creative descriptions about the visuals, techniques, colors, layout, composition, lighting, camera angles and more that we personally want to see more of. I copied & pasted the exact text prompts I created (including my mis spellings, oops) and you can see what the AI Art Generators responded with.

I have alot more to say about these experiments and how they relate to following, but I will save that for our live events.

• Onkwehonwehneha AI
• Native Ways of Doing / Being
• Ancient Intelligence collaborating with Artificial Intelligence
• The Bundling Ceremonies
• Ohenton Kariwahtehkwen
• Respect for All of Creation

AI TEXT PROMPT EXPERIMENT 1:

ai text prompt: dalle2:
monochrome baroque architecture office desk, intricate details, highly detailed, decandent, beautiful, found objects, powerful, hyper-realistic, gothic, fantasy, surreal, 8k

ai text prompt: local stable diffusion:
monochrome baroque architecture office desk, intricate details, highly detailed, decandent, beautiful, found objects, powerful, hyper-realistic, gothic, fantasy, surreal, 8k

AI TEXT PROMPT EXPERIMENT 2:

ai text prompt: dalle2:
monochrome Rococo Baroque architecture wood office scene, intricate details, highly detailed, figurines, bric-a-brac, decay, opulent, beautiful, found objects, hyper-realistic, gothic, fantasy, surreal, high detail, high definition, high quality, photo-realistic, 8k

ai text prompt: local stable diffusion:
monochrome Rococo Baroque architecture wood office scene, intricate details, highly detailed, figurines, bric-a-brac, decay, opulent, beautiful, found objects, hyper-realistic, gothic, fantasy, surreal, high detail, high definition, high quality, photo-realistic, 8k

AI TEXT PROMPT EXPERIMENT 3:

ai text prompt: dalle2
Monochrome Baroque Rococo architecture wood office scene, highly detailed, metal figurines, gothic plastic animals, hyper-realistic, destruction, beautiful frames, hyper-realistic, high detail, intricate, high definition, high quality, photo-realistic, 8k

ai text prompt: local stable diffusion:
Monochrome Baroque Rococo architecture wood office scene, highly detailed, metal figurines, gothic plastic animals, hyper-realistic, destruction, beautiful frames, hyper-realistic, high detail, intricate, high definition, high quality, photo-realistic, 8k

I am happy with the results from DALLE Experiments 1, 2 and 3. I’m happy with the results from Local Stable Diffusion Experiments 1 and 2. The results for Local Stable Diffusion Experiment 3 are not what I was hoping for, and I can think of many new AI Text Prompts to create for my own art practices, that remain respectfully inspired by the magnificent art of Kris Kuksi without doing harm to his art practice.

REFERENCES:

• Kris Kuksi | Artnet
• Baroque Meets the Modern World — Kris Kuksi Interview | Widewalls
• ChatGPT-3
• Kris Kuksi (@kriskuksi) • Instagram photos and videos
• Kris Kuksi in conversation with Jacob Hicks (quantumartreview.com)
• 5 questions to the mixed media assemblage sculptor Kris Kuksi — MuseumWeek Magazine (museum-week.org)