AustinOsmanSpareFlux

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AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE (Early Drawing/Etching/Lithograph Style) LoRA by A.C.T. SOON® <br>

From spectral sketches to liminal lithographs...<br> Pre-phrase thy spell-prompts with the token-sigil “HST”...<br> To conjure your desires’ arcane-most haunts...<br> Diffused... <br> From the latent plane's entropic neither-aether...<br> With an unmistakable visionary touch...<br> Of generative art’s unsung spiritual progenitor: <br> The cult artist and renegade mage...<br> Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956)! <br>

This is a FLUX.1-dev style LoRA...<br> Fine-tuned by A.C.T. SOON®... <br> On one H100 at Replicate/Cog via Ostris' ai-toolkit Flux-trainer.<br> The training targeted four layers of the model (layers 7, 9, 16, and 25) at rank 64...<br> From 60 jpgs, 1-batched in 512x, 768x, and 1024x... <br> At a relatively high learning rate of 7e4.<br> Posted here is the 2000-step checkpoint.<br>

The data set used for this fine-tune consists of 60 artworks focusing specifically on the early period book-illustration styles of Austin Osman Spare. More specifically, the 60 training images (shared here)...<br> Include some of the images appearing in Spare’s books “Earth Inferno”, “Book of Satyrs”, “Book of Pleasure”, and “Focus of Life”, as well as a few contemporaneous pieces.<br>

A BIT ABOUT AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE: <br> In his youth celebrated as the next Beardsley or Watts, quickly achieving and transcending an apotheosis of Symbolist-style ink illustration and lithography, with a strong measure of the occult, Spare matured into a reclusive and underacknowledged forebear of just about half of the twentith century’s avant-gardes, while in select ways anticipating those of the twenty-first century as well.<br> Implementing since early youth a ceaselessly evolving mixed practice of visual creativity, experimentation, philosophical reflection, and idyosyncratic mysticism, Spare was among the first to blend formally refined skills as an illustrator and painter with the practices of a systematized, deliberate psychic automatism, thereby becoming the first to arrive at a fully fledged Surrealism, as much as two decades before Breton’s trendy manifestos.<br>

By the time Surrealism hit in the late 1920’s and the 1930’s, Spare was already developing a practice of quasi-reproducing perspective-skewed (in his word “siderealist”) analogues of mass-produced images of celebrities and the like from magazines and posters.<br> In this way, he was unknowingly advance-sketching a purview of Pop Art. Meanwhile, the vast range of distinct styles emerged in elsewhere in Spare’s artistic practice feature advance or contemporaneous matches to just about everything under the rare sun of London (and not only), from Art Nouveau 2.0 psychedelic posters to Geiger-like horror to hyper-realist war-paintings to comic book-like art (from 60s-like stylized camp to 80s like grittiness).<br> Of course, as any fan of Spare is well aware, the key to his artistic inventiveness lies in his parallel practice as a mystic philosopher, occult practitioner, as well as an author.<br> His undoubtedly best-known and credited innovation is the sigil method, which singularly frees the creative, empirical, agnostic, and experimental elements of mystical praxis (aka “the occult”) from their perennialy enforced domination by archaic belief systems, esoteric epistemes, questionable traditions, arbitrary symbolic frameworks, and etc. uncritically adopted wholesale.<br>

Later on, through further developments by practitioners directly indebted to Spare, the emergence of so-called “Chaos Magic” saw “magick” becoming a shorthand for nothing more, nor less, than a sort of experimental practice of indirectly pre-priming probabilistic causalities, so as to characterize, infer, and actualize targeted aims and/or rendered conditions...<br> Typically, this would be in endeavoured by the means of a deliberate infusion of associatively effectualizing contexts or systems (such as the “code-base” of the subconscious mind) with multimodally encoded and condensed messaging packaging (such as a pictoral sigil encoding in its very form a subliminal trace of a verbal messaging of intent).<br> The parallels to inference and the like should be obvious enough. One could go on by drawing comparisons between zero-shot and “divination”, etc, but I'll leave that up to others, for the time being.<br> Especially since there already’s been quite a lot written (and posted!) about relevant subjects, going back to the very emergence of the internet as we know it and even further back to the hippie and punk cyberneticians of the 60s and 70s.<br>

LINKS:

Here are some resources to learn more:<br> Wikipedia on A.O.S.<br>

One may find a sizable library of resources gathered from “chaote” or “chaoite” message boards (going back to the 80s!) at:<br> Chaos Matrix

To learn more about Spare, you can find many articles and book excerpts in the above-linked library or at:<br> AustinSpare.co.uk<br>

For a comprehensive online gallery of Spare’s artworks, particularly rich in his book illustrations, you would find that:<br> Here<br>

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Trigger words<br>

You should use HST, 'HST style' or 'HST Austin Osman Spare style' to trigger the image generation.<br>

• base model: black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev

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