Computers and Painting’s Identity Crisis. A show at Nahmad Contemporary is an outgrowth of debates around “tradition” in art. Can artists embrace beauty while reaching for new technology?

A computer algorithm has analyzed all of Rembrandt's work to learn the Dutch master's style and technique, before re-creating it in a new painting.

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 ...

Painting might be the last thing you'd expect computers to excel at. It's abstract, expressive, and tied to cultures, psychology, and subjectivity, whereas computers are objective, precise, and ...

Do you like the thick brush strokes and soft color palettes of an impressionist painting such as those by Claude Monet? Or do you prefer the bold colors and abstract shapes of a Rothko? Individual art ...

In the late 1950s, an anonymous IBM employee made a lady from the pages of Esquire come to life on the screen of a $238 million military computer.

All of the creating is executed on computer screens and printers. “I never really enjoyed drawing or art classes,” Guyton said unapologetically as he described growing up in a small town in ...

Teaching a Computer to Paint from Life Like a Monet With a robust algorithm and a library of classic art, Alex J. Champandard helped teach a neural network to "paint" from photos. By John Wenz ...

Lillian Schwartz, who was one of the first artists to use the computer to make films and who helped bring together the artistic, scientific and technology communities in the 1970s by providing a ...

Do you like the thick brush strokes and soft color palettes of an impressionist painting such as those by Claude Monet? Or do you prefer the bold colors and abstract shapes of a Rothko? Individual art ...