(ORDO NEWS) — Van Gogh is considered one of the most popular artists, but during his lifetime his work was not appreciated.
Using artificial intelligence techniques, an American scientist analyzed more than 800,000 paintings by successful artists to derive the so-called “success formula” for creative professions and scientists.
The essence of this formula is that relatively short periods of success are usually preceded by years of experimentation and improvement of one’s style.
How scientists explain Van Gogh’s success
In 2018, researchers at Northwestern University in the United States used statistical methods to show that many successful artists, filmmakers, and scientists have a period in their careers during which they create the most important works associated with their name.
The authors call these periods “hot streaks,” and a new study reveals a pattern of “streaks.”
The lead author of the study came up with the idea while visiting the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
He noted that the artist’s most successful impressionistic paintings, such as “Starry Moonlit Night”, “Sunflowers” and “Bedroom at Arles”, were created in a short period between 1888 and 1890.
Previously, Van Gogh’s work was more realistic, using simple tones of ocher and green rather than the bright colors of his most famous paintings.
Van Gogh began to paint at a mature age and went from an aspiring artist to a successful teacher who rethought the fine arts!
Researchers have developed computational methods using deep learning algorithms and applied these methods to the analysis of large datasets to track the work of artists, filmmakers, and scientists.
They used over 800,000 works collected from museums and galleries, 2,128 artist career histories, 79,000 films, 4,337 directors from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and 20,000 academic articles from Web of Science and Google Scholar and their citation indexes.
The authors found that a series of successful works is usually the direct result of years of research into different styles, followed by a period of exploitation during which artists and scientists who will succeed in the future focus on a narrow area and then come to success.
The boom usually lasts about five years, after which they reach a steady state of artistic or scientific creativity and stop looking for new ideas.
Jackson Pollock, a successful American abstract artist, had a similar period. Even before he began to actively use the “drip technique” he invented, he experimented with drawings and engravings, creating surreal images of people, animals and nature.
And in just three years, from 1947 to 1950, he created a series of masterpieces.
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