TY - GEN
T1 - Large-Scale Analysis of Art Proportions
AU - Jensen, Karl Kristoffer
PY - 2015/4/21
Y1 - 2015/4/21
N2 - While literature often tries to impute mathematical constants into art, this large-scale study (11 databases of paintings and photos, around 200.000 items) shows a different truth. The analysis, consisting of the width/height proportions, shows a value of rarely if ever one (square) and with majority of images having a proportion larger than one, but less than e.g. the golden ratio. Furthermore, more images have the inversed proportion, meaning that portrait paintings are more common than landscape paintings. The inverse is true for photographs, i.e. more landscape than portrait format photographs has been found in the databases.
AB - While literature often tries to impute mathematical constants into art, this large-scale study (11 databases of paintings and photos, around 200.000 items) shows a different truth. The analysis, consisting of the width/height proportions, shows a value of rarely if ever one (square) and with majority of images having a proportion larger than one, but less than e.g. the golden ratio. Furthermore, more images have the inversed proportion, meaning that portrait paintings are more common than landscape paintings. The inverse is true for photographs, i.e. more landscape than portrait format photographs has been found in the databases.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-18836-2_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-18836-2_16
M3 - Article in proceeding
SN - 978-3-319-18835-5
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
SP - 137
EP - 143
BT - Arts and Technology
A2 - Brooks, Anthony Lewis
A2 - Ayiter, Elif
A2 - Yazicigil, Onur
PB - Springer
T2 - 4th International Conference on Arts and Technology, ArtsIT 2014
Y2 - 10 November 2014 through 12 November 2014
ER -