Dissecting landscape art history with information theory

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 117; no. 43; pp. 26580 - 26590
• Main Authors: Lee, Byunghwee, Seo, Min Kyung, Kim, Daniel, Shin, In-seob, Schich, Maximilian, Jeong, Hawoong, Han, Seung Kee
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 27.10.2020
• Series: From the Cover
• Subjects: Art history; Artists; Cognitive ability; Dissection; Evolution; Historians; Information theory; Physical Sciences; Qualitative analysis; Scholarships & fellowships; Social behavior; Social factors; Social interactions; information theory; art history; proportion; composition; paintings

Painting has played a major role in human expression, evolving subject to a complex interplay of representational conventions, social interactions, and a process of historization. From individual qualitative work of art historians emerges a metanarrative that remains difficult to evaluate in its val...