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Entropy and Stability in Painting: An Information Approach to the Mechanisms of Artistic Creativity

The author presents a method for identifying the sequence of stages of the creative process in painting, specifically an artist's decisions about such parameters as genre, composition, color structure, etc. The method is based on the calculation of the coefficients of informativity relating to the distribution (and hence, entropy) of the artist's works over the above parameters. Using this method, 240 paintings by three famous Russian artists (Pavel

Vladimir M. Petrov | V. Petrov

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