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Author(s): J. Kirsch, Russell Kirsch and Sandy Ressler
Publication date: March 1987
Citation: J. Kirsch, Russell Kirsch and Sandy Ressler: "Computers Viewing Artists at Work," Proceedings of Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition, March, 1987.
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Abstract:
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Our title suggests an artificial intelligence approach to the use
of computers in the fine arts. We consider computers to have
capabilities beyond the utilitarian ones of aiding in art making.
Rather, we will investigate the possibility of computers seeing, even
understanding, significant form in art. This understanding cannot
rise autonomously, but must be the product of careful tutelage by
artists, critics, and historians. A powerful tutorial mechanism to
use for computers to learn about art is the picture grammar, which
allows large classes of compositional structures to be described to a
computer by the scholar who has a deep understanding of the art works.
In this paper, we illustrate how a machine can be taught the
compositional structure of the paintings of the contemporary artist
Richard Diebenkorn. With such grammatical instruction, the computer
can analyze existing paintings, generate new ones of the same style,
and provide a beginning to a computational theory of style.
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