In the spirit of Andy Warhol’s famous painting (above), I have created this montage of images (below) based on the same photo of Che Guevara but in the stye, via the Wolfram Language’s Restyle function, of twelve different famous artists. Can you guess which artists?
Andy Warhol didn’t actually paint the 9-panel image, but he is generally credited for it.
Che Guevara was not the benevolent, romantically heroic freedom fighter that the image implies. I think that the photo is so good that it has propelled him to cultural icon status in spite of the historical truth.
All of the artists represented here are male. That is just an accident of which renders turned out well in the neural net. I am not trying to make a statement by omitting female artists. (But I think the neural net is definitely biased.)
Interesting puzzle! If the top left is #1 and bottom right is #12 then going from left to right then top to bottom, I’m going to guess 2 is Hokusai, 4 is Chagall, 7 is Van Gogh, 8 is Mondrian, and 10 is Lichtenstein. 12 is probably Picasso but I’m less sure about that one, Beyond that I got nothing.
Arno, I don’t have a coding gem that would solve the puzzle. Now you have got me thinking how one would do that. With a list of artists, one might gather images from WikiData or Wikipedia and use Nearest to get some metrics to determine which is most likely a match for a particular image. I’ll have some time later today and give it a shot.
Henri Rousseau is right for #1. He is known for his tropical jungle scenes and you can see the tropical foliage in image #1. Georges Braque is #6, but #5 is another artist.
I did try gathering images from Wikipedia via the WikipediaData function, deleting any that weren’t 3-channel images to eliminate black-and-white photos and 4-channel icons, and extracting features (FeatureExtraction) to abstract an artist’s “style”. Then I compared each artist’s style with the restyled image in question using FeatureDistance. This did produce a set of metrics that I had hoped would point to the restyled image’s artist. The numbers did not identify the artist though. They were not even close enough to lead me to believe that further effort would produce better results.
I’ll leave this challenge for someone else in the Community to attempt. : )
Artist #5 is not Juan Gris, though thanks for introducing me to another Cubist. : ) Image #5 is based on the artist’s painting style, though the artist was known more for his… well, we’ll call them sculptures.
Okay, so I think I have #5 finally. As #3 is American, I see some likeness to a few works of Childe Hassam, but that’s a stretch. I remain dead in the water for #11.
For image #11, if it were a female face instead of Che Guevara’s you would probably recognize the artist. Hassam is not correct for #3. You say you have #5; what is your guess?
