Digital image processing and analysis can be an important tool for the restoration of works of art. This paper presents three applications of image processing in this field: a method for digital crack restoration of paintings, a technique for color restoration of old paintings and a method for mosaicing of partial images of works of art painted on curved surfaces. A digital archiving system for...

This work is an example of the interplay between computergenerated art work by a computer scientist and traditional paintings on canvas by an artist. We show that computer-generated swarm constructions can obtain great expressiveness and exhibit liveliness, rhythm, movement, tension, contrasts, organic looks, and rigid forms. These characteristics lend themselves to complement traditional paint...

as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.” ―Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote F the first half of the 20th century, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso dominated the art world in a great variety of creative styles and forms, creating more than 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other works. His widely recognized and now iconic black and white sketch of Don Quixote prov...

This paper describes the results of experiments carried out at the National Gallery in London, comparing original paintings with printed colour reproductions made by processing digital images captured by a high resolution digital camera. A pairwise comparison method was used for three paintings under several different illumination conditions with a panel of observers. The results indicate that ...

Arguments are presented that paintings are unable to induce basic psychobiological emotions because they do not powerfully engage with spectators’ intimate associativememory systems. However, it is suggested that art installations containing properties subsumable under the classical concept of the sublime (physical grandeur, rarity, novelty, an association with beauty and with biologically sign...

Recent advances in imaging and multimedia technologies have paved the way for automatic analysis of visual art. Despite notable attempts, extracting relevant patterns from paintings is still a challenging task. Different painters, born in different periods and places, have been influenced by different schools of arts. However, each individual artist also has a unique signature, which is hard to...

Considering the huge amount of art pieces that exist, there is valuable information to be discovered. Focusing on paintings as one kind of artistic creature that is printed on a surface, artists can determine its genre and the time period that paintings can belong to. In this work we are proposing the interesting problem of automatic influence determination between painters which has not been e...

This paper proposes a price index for artists based on the ratio between the average market price and the average estimated price of the paintings sold by an artist each year, adjusted for market dynamics. We apply this methodology to a group of selected artists and schools drawing from a database including auction prices and estimated prices of paintings presented in auctions world wide betwee...

Ant paintings are visualizations of the paths made by a simulated group of ants on a toroidal grid. Ant movements and interactions are determined by a simple but formal mathematical model that often includes some stochastic features. Previous ant paintings used the color trails deposited by the ants to represent the pheromone, but more recently color trails and pheromones have been considered s...