I. Berezhnoy & E. Postma & J. van den Herik
The paper provides insights into our efforts to develop techniques for the analysis of visual art. The AUTHENTIC project aims at creating a collection of software tools to support art experts in their assessments of the authenticity of paintings. We describe our progress on the automatic analysis of two visual features of the paintings of Vincent van Gogh: colour and texture. The colour-analysis technique is shown to confirm the generally known increase in the use of complementary colours accompanying Van Gogh’s move to France. The texture-analysis technique reveals two main clusters of brushstroke shapes in a single painting. These qualifying results lead us to conclude that the use of advanced digital analysis techniques will change the way in which the authentication of visual art is performed.
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