Informational Dialogue with Van Gogh's Paintings

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dc.contributor.authorRigau, Jaumeen_US
dc.contributor.authorFeixas, Miquelen_US
dc.contributor.authorSbert, Mateuen_US
dc.contributor.editorDouglas W. Cunningham and Victoria Interrante and Paul Brown and Jon McCormacken_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-22T07:38:42Z
dc.date.available2013-10-22T07:38:42Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.description.abstractFrom the pioneering work by Birkhoff, several measures have been proposed to quantify the aesthetic content of art. After Bense's application of information theory to Birkhoff's ideas, the concept of informational aesthetics appears. In this paper, we analyze a selection of van Gogh's paintings using a set of informational aesthetic measures based on the entropy of the palette, the compressibility of the image, and an information channel to capture the basic structure of the painting. The values of these measures match fairly well against the different styles in van Gogh's work and allow a quantitative description of these periods. In addition, we present two new measures which quantify the information associated with both color and canvas regions and enable us to visualize the most salient colors and elements of a painting.We believe that informational aesthetic measures can contribute to discovering relevant characteristics of a painting or of a painter's style.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imagingen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-905674-08-8en_US
dc.identifier.issn1816-0859en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH08/115-122en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectCategories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.4.9 [Image Processing and Computer Vision]: Applications J.5 [Computer Applications]: Arts and Humanitiesen_US
dc.titleInformational Dialogue with Van Gogh's Paintingsen_US
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