Marionette Modernism after Aleksandra Ekster & Sophie Taeuber-Arp
|||| By SilverAgePoets.com |||| VARIANT 3 ||||
For generating stylized images reminiscent of photos featuring Constructivist or/and Dadaist avant-garde string marionettes (or/and stringless "living dolls").
A few of Taeuber-Arp's marionettes used for this fine-tune:
NOTE: This is the 3rd Alternate Variant of this LoRA, fine-tuned over the more typical De-Distilled version of a FLUX base model. Hyperparameters: Rank 32 (dim/alpha: 32), 900 steps, 5 epochs, res:512, lr: up to .0005 over the cosine cycle, Cosine with restarts at 200step intervals, Fixed Orthonormal LoRA down, Base: Flux De-Distilled(q6), locally trained on an old M1 Air (!) Macbook using Drawthings
Find the alt. Variant 1, tuned over a normie FLUX Dev, HERE. As well as the most extensive of the variants, Variant 2, tuned over a more singular and modified De-Distilled FLUX base, and at a higher rank + more steps (than either Var.1 or this one) HERE.
Our Low-Rank Adapter (LoRA) for FLUX models fine-tuned on a set of manually pre-processed & exhaustively captioned...
Selection of 60+ photos of uncanny avant-garde Cubo-Futurist/Constructivist & Surrealist/Dadaist string puppets from two mutually-echoing, though autonomously developed, sets crafted by two of 20th century's most iconic and influential avant-garde artists:
Aleksandra Ekster (1882 — 1949) and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889 — 1943):
EKSTER & TAEUBER-ARP: Two epochal artists and leading visionaries of their respective (and occasionally overlapping) creative mileus, both utterly distinctive stylists and ever-evolving experimentalists with a shared artistically omnidexterous zeal for expressing their singular geniuses in any and every mode, context, or sphere of expression presciently gleaned at the horizons of a given year or day.
And though their names are seldomly mentioned in the same breath or abstract by researchers or curators, Ekster's & Taeuber-Arp's artistic trajectories do hold between them some measure of spectral rhyme, like a matching rhythm of two extremely long shadows tossed by two incomparable lives unto some unbestknown shared point of exact inbetweenness...
...granted, comparing their arts, styles, or even specific works would likely be a pointless exercise, and at best an entertaining little mystification, with no exhaustive enough point of reference to speak of (with the closest plausible exception being the two marrionette sets that went into this LoRA; still... we'd rather treat these dolls as a signal echo, a commonality, not as some opportune overlay for critical dissection by contrast harnessing);
...moreover, every conclusion one might reach by placing the works/ways of two artists in direct contrast to each other (and, thereby, becoming all the more decontextualized in other ways) tends to be even more contrived and shallow than a museum retrospective brochure, or a random introductory write-up like this one ... So... What are we left with? Why, everything, of course!
...For the prime commonality of these particular two artists is, of course, condensed in the comparably monumental scale, kaleidoscopic variety, and pioneering resonance of the influence each and both had cast upon their largely-co-contemporaneous lifetimes, worlds, and arts...
– with Ekster (co-)formulating (alongside Burlyuk, Goncharova, Malevich, Tatlin, Popova, & others) the premises and most prolifically refining the character of Eastern-European Cubo-Futurism, Suprematism, & Soviet Constructivism alike;
– and with Taeuber-Arp due at least as much, and arguable more, credit than any of her over-mythologized Sur-Dada peers for the shaping of both Dadaism & Surrealism artistically (some avant-garde historiographers seem to forget that part); meaning, a Surrealism both greater & other than any mere "style", constituting an open-form process-oriented creative life-mode, which Taeuber-Arp had lived out unto a model epitome in ways Dali could only dream of (occasionally reporting back), and only a few others matched then or since (notably, Carrington in her latter days)...
...as for our extending rhyme-scheme of Tauber-Arp's & Ekster's comparative impact-traces; some additional echoes between them sound out within the steep angle to which both their statures, their respective gravities of influence, have been posthumously understated by art historiographers & other hauntological strappers-up of heavy-stringed canons, with their due canonical stature for long with-held. And for what possible reason?
One of Ekster's marionettes used for this fine-tune:
Check out a wider subset of Ekster's Cubo-Futurist/Constructivist avant-garde marionettes, from among the images used to fine-tune this LoRA VIA THIS LINK.
Check out a wider subset of Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Dadaist/Surrealist avant-garde marionettes, from among the images used to fine-tune this LoRA VIA THIS LINK.
Taeuber-Arp's marionette of King Stag:
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You should use dadadoll style photo
or dadadoll style photo of a Constructivist living doll crafted by Ekster
or dadadoll style photo of a Dadaist marionette crafted by Taeuber-Arp
or dadadoll style photo of avant-garde marionette string puppets by Taeuber-Arp & Ekster
to summon the artists' latent hands.
Use it with the 🧨 diffusers library
from diffusers import AutoPipelineForText2Image
import torch
pipeline = AutoPipelineForText2Image.from_pretrained('black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev', torch_dtype=torch.float16).to('cuda')
pipeline.load_lora_weights('AlekseyCalvin/Marionette_Modernism_FluxLoRA_Var3_bySilverAgePoets', weight_name='marionette_modernism_var3_lora_900steps_f16Convert.safetensors')
image = pipeline('your prompt').images[0]
For more details, including weighting, merging and fusing LoRAs, check the documentation on loading LoRAs in diffusers
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