  Technologies related to artificial intelligence (AI) have a strong impact on
the changes of research and creative practices in visual arts. The growing
number of research initiatives and creative applications that emerge in the
intersection of AI and art, motivates us to examine and discuss the creative
and explorative potentials of AI technologies in the context of art. This paper
provides an integrated review of two facets of AI and art: 1) AI is used for
art analysis and employed on digitized artwork collections; 2) AI is used for
creative purposes and generating novel artworks. In the context of AI-related
research for art understanding, we present a comprehensive overview of artwork
datasets and recent works that address a variety of tasks such as
classification, object detection, similarity retrieval, multimodal
representations, computational aesthetics, etc. In relation to the role of AI
in creating art, we address various practical and theoretical aspects of AI Art
and consolidate related works that deal with those topics in detail. Finally,
we provide a concise outlook on the future progression and potential impact of
AI technologies on our understanding and creation of art.
