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Artwork research has long relied on human sensibility and subjective judgment, but recent developments in machine learning have enabled the quantitative assessment of features that humans could not discover. In Western paintings,…

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Considering the huge amount of art pieces that exist, there is valuable information to be discovered. Examining a painting, an expert can determine its style, genre, and the time period that the painting belongs. One important task for art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Babak Saleh , Kanako Abe , Ravneet Singh Arora , Ahmed Elgammal

Controllable painting generation plays a pivotal role in image stylization. Currently, the control way of style transfer is subject to exemplar-based reference or a random one-hot vector guidance. Few works focus on decoupling the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Minxuan Lin , Yingying Deng , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

It has been claimed [1-6] that fractal analysis can be applied to unambiguously characterize works of art such as the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock. This academic issue has become of more general interest following the recent discovery…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-31 Katherine Jones-Smith , Harsh Mathur , Lawrence M. Krauss

Multifractal analysis techniques are applied to patterns in several abstract expressionist artworks, paintined by various artists. The analysis is carried out on two distinct types of structures: the physical patterns formed by a specific…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. R. Mureika , C. C. Dyer , G. C. Cupchik

A piece of music can be expressively performed, or interpreted, in a variety of ways. With the help of an online questionnaire, the Con Espressione Game, we collected some 1,500 descriptions of expressive character relating to 45…

Standing at the intersection of science and art, artistic data visualization has gained popularity in recent years and emerged as a significant domain. Despite more than a decade since the field's conceptualization, a noticeable gap remains…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xingyu Lan , Yifan Wang , Lingyu Peng , Xiaofan Ma

Human symbol systems such as art and fashion styles emerge from complex social processes that govern the continuous re-organization of modern societies. They provide a signaling scheme that allows members of an elite to distinguish…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-11 Peter Klimek , Robert Kreuzbauer , Stefan Thurner

In the fields of Experimental and Computational Aesthetics, numerous image datasets have been created over the last two decades. In the present work, we provide a comparative overview of twelve image datasets that include aesthetic ratings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Ralf Bartho , Katja Thoemmes , Christoph Redies

The goal of this study was to investigate the translate-ability of creative works into other domains. We tested whether people were able to recognize which works of art were inspired by which pieces of music. Three expert painters created…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-11 Apara Ranjan , Liane Gabora , Brian O'Connor

In this paper, we analyze a sample of clippings from paintings by the late artist Bob Ross. Previous work focused on the qualitative themes of his paintings (Hickey, 2014); here, we expand on that line of research by considering the…

Applications · Statistics 2015-12-10 Christopher Steven Marcum

From Paleolithic cave paintings to Impressionism, human painting has evolved to depict increasingly complex and detailed scenes, conveying more nuanced messages. This paper attempts to emerge this artistic capability by simulating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yi Lin , Lin Gu , Ziteng Cui , Shenghan Su , Yumo Hao , Yingtao Tian , Tatsuya Harada , Jianfei Yang

Research on how humans perceive aesthetics in shapes, colours, and music has predominantly focused on Western populations, limiting our understanding of how cultural environments shape aesthetic preferences. We present a large-scale…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Harin Lee , Eline Van Geert , Elif Celen , Raja Marjieh , Pol van Rijn , Minsu Park , Nori Jacoby

I report the results of the test, where the takers had to tell true masterpieces of abstract art from the fakes, produced by me. I describe each picture by the fraction of the test takers, who selected it as a masterpiece. When I compare…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-06-14 M. V. Simkin

A painting consists of objects which are arranged in specific ways. The art of painting is drawing the objects, which can be considered as known trends, in an expressive manner. Detrended methods are suitable for characterizing the artistic…

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The study of art evolution has provided valuable insights into societal change, often revealing long-term patterns of simplification and transformation. Album covers represent a distinctive yet understudied form of visual art that has both…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Nicolas Fracaro , Stefano Cecconello , Mauro Conti , Niccolò Di Marco , Alessandro Galeazzi

Creativity and the understanding of cognitive processes involved in the creative process are relevant to all of human activities. Comprehension of creativity in the arts is of special interest due to the involvement of many scientific and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Milan Rajković , Miloš Milovanović

Step-by-step painting tutorials are vital for learning artistic techniques, but existing video resources (e.g., YouTube) lack interactivity and personalization. While recent generative models have advanced artistic image synthesis, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Markus Pobitzer , Chang Liu , Chenyi Zhuang , Teng Long , Bin Ren , Nicu Sebe

We develop a quantitative method to assess the style of American poems and to visualize a collection of poems in relation to one another. Qualitative poetry criticism helped guide our development of metrics that analyze various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 David M. Kaplan , David M. Blei

This paper explores the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio as organizing principles for visual composition and abstraction in painting. The author shows how recursive proportional systems, long associated with natural growth and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Shankhadeep Mondal , R. N. Mohapatra