Paper Info
Title
Statistical analysis of impressionist color
Abstract
Impressionism is one of the greatest arts beloved by people all over the world. One of the artistic appealing is their specific brightness and color touch, but the aesthetic appealing of Impressionist color is still unveiled. In this research, we use Self Organized Criticality (SOC) theory to extract one of their aesthetic appealing. We propose a statistical analysis of Impressionist colors applying Zipf's law, which is one of the phenomena of SOC. We examine large number of paintings, mainly 19th century western art, such as Impressionism, Realism, Romanticism, and others. The result shows the color distributions of Impressionist paintings tend to follow Zipf's law, statistically significant at a level of 0.05.In other words, Impressionist color is significant relationship with SOC. Based on this finding, we extract "fractal dimension" of color distribution used in the paintings, and then estimate the number of palette colors used in the painting with X 2 Fitting. The fractal dimension and the palette color we proposed will be useful for characterizing Impressionist color.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/1012551.1012599
APGV
Keywords
Field
DocType
palette color,significant relationship,color distribution,impressionist color,century western art,color touch,statistical analysis,self organized criticality,large number,fractal dimension,impressionist painting,dynamic range
Zipf's law,Computer vision,Visual arts,Computer science,Tone reproduction,Painting,Artificial intelligence,The arts,Brightness,Realism,Statistical analysis
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-914-4
2
0.51
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Asako Fukumoto121.18
Dong Sheng Cai221.18
Michiaki Yasumura326636.88