The Evolution of Art Style in terms of Network Science - based on the History of Western Fine Art

• Main Authors: Chen, Sze-Yang, 陳思仰
• Other Authors: Huang, Tayuan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p7hf8x

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 理學院科技與數位學習學程 === 101 === The discipline of network science has been successfully applied in various areas recently. Stimulated by this trend, this research will focus on studying the history of Western Fine Art, in particular the evolution of style/school-changing among artists, within the framework of network science. We first notice that ancient Egypt and ancient Greek and Rome can be best described as centralized networks and scale-free networks respectively. Network graphs will be depicted for showing those networks formed by 50 selected most influential artists since Renaissance period on. When we focus on the hub-transitions among 19th century artists, we can find easily some well-known network properties over the evolutions of style/school - changing among them. Mimic to Erdős number, three-master number associated with De Vinci, Michelangelo and Raffelo is introduced based on these networks for measuring the connections between various artists and the three Giants of the High Renaissance. With the progresses concluded in this thesis, we expect that the discipline of network science will continuously provide more insights into the study of art history.