News Finding: From 1950 onward, however, artists appeared to return to ordered ideals, embracing clean lines and neat grids to an extent surpassing that of their Renaissance and Romanticism predecessors.
Paper Finding: By calculating two complexity measures associated with the local order of the pixel arrangement in these artworks, we observe a clear and robust temporal evolution.
News Context: The final data pool spanned more than 2,000 artists and 100 styles. From 1950 onward, however, artists appeared to return to ordered ideals, embracing clean lines and neat grids to an extent surpassing that of their Renaissance and Romanticism predecessors. Paintings with highly variable patterns were viewed as more complex, while those with relative uniformity were deemed less complex.
Paper Context: and showed also that the same quantity can be used to capture information about artistic styles. By calculating two complexity measures associated with the local order of the pixel arrangement in these artworks, we observe a clear and robust temporal evolution. This evolution is characterized with transitions that agree with different art periods.