Oriental ink painting, called Sumi-e, is one of the most distinctive painting styles and has attracted artists around the world. Major challenges in Sumi-e simulation are to abstract complex scene information and reproduce smooth and natural brush strokes. To automatically generate such strokes, we propose to model the brush as a reinforcement learning agent, and let the agent learn the desired...

In this paper we study some of the characteristics of the art painting image color semantics. We analyze the color features of different artists and art movements. The analysis includes exploration of hue, saturation and luminance. We also use quartile’s analysis to obtain the distribution of the dispersion of defined groups of paintings and measure the degree of purity for these groups. A spec...

The idea of bringing together the arts and sciences is not new. In almost every age, these two disciplines have had a difficult and fragile relationship. Where does this mutual fascination come from? What are the limits of this dialog? How can we avoid misunderstanding, and manage this encounter in a productive way? As an artist, I am often asked “Why do you need this?” Actually my answer is th...

Digital painting has progressed by leaps and bounds since its humble beginnings [30]. What some of the original painting applications called “brushes” were really simple line-drawing mechanisms based on the model of a circular tip, swept along a path. Still, within these systems, artists prevailed to make impressive images with the first inklings of a natural media style. Things have advanced g...

Modernism’s relation to politics is uncontested. The debate that endures surrounds the nature of the relationship (direct, indirect, or inverse?) and the artist’s role in shaping it, as a deliberate political actor or a medium of socialhistorical forces. Patricia Leighten’s new book, The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris, is an absorbing and scholarly study t...