The Morandi Room

Entering the World of Morandi's Paintings through Machine Learning

Abstract

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 (pix2pix and CycleGAN). From the results of a questionnaire survey of 29 people, we confirmed that experiencing this exhibit deepened their interest in the painter.