AI art critic can predict which emotions a painting will evoke

By Edd Gent

Monet’s paintings of gardens can make a viewer feel content, while Dali’s melting clocks elicit fear or confusion. Now, an AI art critic can predict the emotions famous paintings will evoke and often explain them as convincingly as a human.

AI image analysis often focuses on describing what is going on in pictures, but the subjective feelings that works of art arouse …