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The Morandi Room: Entering the World of Morandi’s Paintings Through Machine Learning

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In this study, we propose a new way to appreciate artwork based on the growing interest in the active appreciation of artwork and the development of machine learning technology. We chose Italian painter Giorgio Morandi, who was active in the first half of the 20 century and known for his unique composition and coloring, as the theme, and developed a hands-on exhibit in which spectators freely arrange and compose objects that reproduce the painter’s motifs, and generates images that reproduce the painter’s coloring by machine learning. From the results of a questionnaire survey of 29 people, we confirmed that experiencing this exhibit deepened their interest in the painter.

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    https://www.nextrembrandt.com/.

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    https://deepart.io/.

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    For example, the event “Immersive Museum” which was scheduled to be held in Tokyo from April 2020, projects images of works by impressionist artists such as Degas and Renoir over the entire field of vision so people can enter the world of painting. https://immersive-museum.jp/.

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    ©DACS, 2020, Photo ©Tate, CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported) https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/morandi-still-life-n05782.

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    http://www.houseofzka.com/morandi-esque.

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    http://fuminaosuenaga.com/workshop/morandi/.

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    https://www.iamas.ac.jp/report/review-iamas2020/.

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Kobayashi, S., Kuwakubo, R., Matsui, S., Otani, Y., Zhang, X., Niizumi, D. (2021). The Morandi Room: Entering the World of Morandi’s Paintings Through Machine Learning. In: Yada, K., et al. Advances in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73113-7_13

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