关键词: 视觉艺术, 画派风格, 信息论, 有序度, 复杂度

Abstract: In the history of art, the analysis and demarcation of visual art style was judged by the subjective awareness of art critics. But each person has his own views, so it is too subjective. Computer, as a general-purpose digital processing machine, can count the characteristics of art style objectively. This paper uses computer as the calculation tool, uses the information theory as a theoretical basis, and proposes four image features for the art style analysis. They are palette entropy, redundancy, degree of order and complexity. This paper studies the paintings selected from seven artists in experiments. It is found that the four features can reflect the intrinsic link of the same kind paintings and the differences of the different kind paintings by the quantitative analysis and statistics of the feature values. The experimental results can echo with the analysis of critics.

Key words: visual art, painting style, information theory, degree of order, complexity