Art History

Imagine a special art history where each painting is represented by a single pixel, created by averaging the painting’s color palette. The uniqueness of each pixel lies in its almost unrepeatable color. In the digital world, the simplest color model contains 16.8 million color variations. This allows me to combine large arrays of pixels into compositions that reflect periods, collections, or art movements and compare their chromatic differences.

I can pose both simple and complex questions that have not been asked before:

* Is there a difference between artists whose names start with the letter A and those with the letter Z?

* How do various art movements differ from one another?

* What are the unique features of museum collections?

* How do the color palettes in the paintings of men and women intersect?

* Are there noticeable differences between pre-war and post-war years?

* How does the color palette of an artist’s work change between youth and maturity?

* A comparison of official and unofficial art in the USSR and Nazi Germany.

         *         Is there a noticeable difference in the palettes of good and bad paintings (expensive and inexpensive)?

* Comparison of the color palettes of nations.

And so on…