art curation

Art Curation (Images and Excel File/Worksheet) To “curate” an artwork for processing the following steps must be taken: 1. Images must be at least 600 X 800 pixels in size (e.g. 200 x 200) is too small. If an image is slightly smaller than 600 X 800 pixels, it is acceptable, but 600 x 800 pixels in size is best. 2. Images must be saved as files with labels: name.title.date (e.g. Cezanne.Selfportrait.1875). Titles of paintings can be shortened, if necessary. 3. Images must be purged of “noise”: frames, writing, anything not intrinsic to the artwork itself, but added by the website, etc.  4. Images must be as close to the original painting as possible. Select your works from the artist’s official website, or the museum which houses the original painting, if allowed.    5. Images must be sorted and saved in at least five folders. There must be at least twelve images per folder to yield statistically significant information. 6. Folders are determined by your experiment. Each folder can represent a specific painter, a genre, a geographic region, a style, a time-frame, etc. The sorting of paintings into folders is determined by the questions you are asking about the artist and his or her paintings.  7. Label your folders by an identifiable name for others (e.g. Picasso Blue Period, Cezanne Salon D’Automne 1907, Kehinde Wiley 1980-2000).