Belgian AI Surrealism

Note: In this blog post, I use AI-generated photos – but nowhere else on this website. (At least not intentionally: most of the photos on visitbelgium.net are mine, but a few still come from Adobe Stock, where it’s not always clear whether AI was involved.)

AI Photos

Nowadays, it’s possible to create excellent “photos” using AI. In the tourism sector, however, AI images tend to fall somewhere between absurdly bad, kitschy, and very good – but often flawed in detail. Ultimately, they’re a complete no-go for tourism anyway, since you don’t attract travelers with fake photos. Period.

In this post, however, I’ve used AI artistically – because Belgians love surrealism.

Belgian Surrealism

A brief excursus: Surrealism in Belgium developed in parallel with the French movement in the 1920s but took on a distinctly individual character. Belgian artists such as René Magritte and Paul Delvaux combined everyday scenes with dreamlike, often ironic elements. Magritte in particular questioned reality by placing familiar objects in unexpected contexts – most famously in his painting “Le fils de l’homme”. Belgian surrealism went on to influence art, literature, and philosophy far beyond the country’s borders throughout the 20th century.

Below are some surreal AI-generated images: