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jacksonpollack
Clarendon freshens up the sludge grays, renders the yellows more acid, the blacks purplier, the whole whorl more vibrantly distinct.
amedeomodigliani
Here you can see how the Clarendon filter corrects for overly rosy skin tones.
pablopicasso
Clarendon = brighter whites and stripier stripes.
rembrandtvanrijn
Clarendon is modern. It’s LED not candle light.
markrothko
With #nofilter the scumbled color fields lack punch on the screen.
jacksonpollack
Clarendon improves the spaciousness of this work by increasing the contrast between the expressionist splatter and the painting’s ground.
paulgauguin
Here the algorithm’s brightening impact works like a solvent, as though dissolving some drab topcoat of varnish.
paulcézanne
Unfiltered, nineteenth century smog and pipe smoke darken the scene.
willemdekooning
Arguably the least succesful intervention, here the whitening filter overexposes the image and flattens the paint texture, concealing much of its masterfully gestural brush work.
leonardodavinci
Thousands of hours of conjectural retouching still left this contentiously attributed work in the shade. It takes an algorithm to bring the savior’s limpid light to the world.