Rhythmic brushstrokes distinguish van gogh from his contemporaries: Findings via automated brushstroke extraction

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1159-1176

  Li, Jia ^a   Yao, Lei ^a   Hendriks, Ella ^b   Wang, James Z ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VAN GOGH MUSEUM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brushstroke style; Oil paintings; Postimpressionism; Statistical analysis; Van Gogh

Indexed keywords

ART HISTORIANS; BRUSHSTROKE STYLE; NOVEL EXTRACTION; OIL PAINTINGS; POSTIMPRESSIONISM; TIME-PERIODS; VAN GOGH;

EDGE DETECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PAINT;

EID: 84860239000     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.203     Document Type: Article

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