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As tomcam has already pointed out, Mondrian is in no way a Cubist.

I would also argue that the colours are nowhere near those of Mondrian. 'classic' Mondrian paintings feature a very exact and reduced aesthetic consisting only of pure applications of red, blue, yellow, white, black, and gray.

As an artist with a history of collaborating with computer engineers, I can say that Mondrian, Van Gogh and the post/impressionists seem to constitute the vast majority of artists who are used in projects like this (style transfer, non-photorealistic rendering, image generation etc). I can see the attraction: they are simple to conceptualize and have a fairly shallow tonal range, being largely defined by their colour and form. However, I would love to see more attention paid to artists like Rubens, Turner, Rembrandt etc.




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