What makes a colored image, eg an abstract painting or a landscape, look pleasing? We
hypothesized that a preference for complex color compositions, such as paintings and …

Walking around an art museum we can see how colours influence our aesthetic
preferences: many great works of art would not be as impressive in grey scales. Is the …

With the increase in massive digitized datasets of cultural artefacts, social and cultural
scientists have an unprecedented opportunity for the discovery and expansion of cultural …

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) was a Mexican artist who is remembered for her self-portraits, pain
and passion, and bold, vibrant colors. This work aims to use her life story and her artistic …

One of the contributing factors to the continuing debate among art historians over the use of
computational methods in art history research is that they do not consider the core of today's …

In an early study, the so-called “relevant colour” in a painting was heuristically introduced as
a term to describe the number of colours that would stand out for an observer when just …

In this paper, we introduce an innovative parameter that allows us to evaluate the so-called
“relevant colors” in a painting; in other words, the number of colors that would stand out for …

This study aims to identify the color preferences of ancient Egyptian paintings and their
cultural and historical reasons through color analysis, and consequently introduce a color …

We propose a general framework to study the relationship between the price of a painting
and its color‐related attributes. To this end we focus on four key aspects: dominant colors …

Color is one of the fundamental elements of paintings. This paper proposes a set of
measurements for color usage in a painting, including basic color elements, global and local …