Computers are good at many things, but painting has always been considered a distinctly human skill. Creating texture, blending, shading—these are all things the human hand is very adept at doing (ok, ...

A computer algorithm analyzed all of Rembrandt's work to learn the Dutch master's style and technique, before re-creating it in a new painting. Last week, scholars revealed an as-yet-unknown Rembrandt ...

A show at Nahmad Contemporary is an outgrowth of debates around “tradition” in art. Can artists embrace beauty while reaching for new technology? By Travis Diehl Every new generation of artists, ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been getting a lot of media attention lately, from Google's AlphaGo to Microsoft and Facebook's photo recognition for the blind. But being able to ...

Last week, scholars revealed an as-yet-unknown Rembrandt painting. The picture, which shows a man looking away, had the rich colors, subtle emotion, characteristic brushstrokes, and evocative play of ...

JUDGING artistic styles, and the similarities between them, might be thought one bastion of human skill that machines could never storm. Not so, if Lior Shamir at Lawrence Technological University in ...

Spray paint is a notoriously tricky medium to control with a reliable level of accuracy. Fortunately for would-be muralists everywhere, researchers have invented a "smart" spray paint system that can ...

Computer painting programs can produce good-looking results but some artists say using a mouse robs them of the sensation of producing art, hampering their creativity. Now researchers have come up ...