What is it about?
Many Western-style paintings by Japanese artists in the early 1900s, though maintaining a unique quality, were greatly inspired by the works of Western artists. In this paper, we employ machine learning to identify relationships and classify the works of Japanese and Western artists.
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Why is it important?
The relationships between artworks by Western artists and Meiji-Era Japanese artists are of significant interest to numerous art historians, as they can reveal how Western art was introduced to Japan. Historically, art historians have manually annotated these correspondences, which is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process.
Perspectives
This paper bridges the latest machine learning technology with studies in art history. On the other hand, as the relationships between artworks by Western artists and Meiji-Era Japanese artists have been intensely studied by art historians, we have obtained a unique dataset containing two sets of artworks with matches between them. We believe that this type of dataset is very unique and will be important for studies in machine learning.
Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn
Tokyo Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Identifying Relationships and Classifying Western-style Paintings: Machine Learning Approaches for Artworks by Western Artists and Meiji-era Japanese Artists, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, January 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3631136.
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