| Picasso didn't invent one style - he invented lots of styles. So it's nonsense to say this video is "in the style of" Picasso. It's more like an insta-Picasso plug-in for one particular form of abstraction. It's interesting and unusual, and yes, it would be better with constraints. I'm not sure I'd want to look at it on a big screen though. >of course a deeplearning net can't actually do cubism. One of the interesting things to fall out of this research is the realisation that a lot of art - even figurative art - is based on abstraction of visual invariants. There's no reason that creative abstraction can't be automated to create new styles. The difference when humans do it is the level of psychological insight and feel for what's visually important and interesting in a scene. That can probably be automated too, but it's a very much harder problem. The challenge for most developers in this space is that they have a much more superficial understanding of art (and music, and writing) than they believe they do, so a lot of content and detail that's important to experienced viewers gets ignored. The result is superficial lookalike output - pastiche. Technically, the superficial output is an achievement in itself, but it's still a way short of being artistically innovative in its own right. |