I was trying to find out who this artist was whose work I had photographed at the MOMA in NY. I thought it was either Hans Arp, or possibly Juan Miró. So I dropped the pics I had taken into Google’s reverse image lookup, and although I was unable to find what I was looking for, I did get some interesting results:
I also tried to look up some other art to see what it would come up with. Again, the results were unexpected and intersting.
This is a pic I found of a work in progress by Joseph Albers. You can see he was trying to figure out the color order for this print by taping pieces of colored paper together. I thought it was interesting to see an artifact like this which documents his working method. Anyway, here’s what I found when I plugged it in:
I found it strange that it didn’t find this photo, which seems much more similar than any that it did find. It’s interesting how intelligence works, and how we see connections that are so clear and simple, yet to get a computer to do the same trick is so very difficult.
Then I plugged in a photo of one of my own paintings just to see what might come up:
And one last image. I was trying to find out who this photograph was by. It turned out to be a source photo used by Vija Celmins for one of her paintings (although Google did not help me out on this one either).
This could be an interesting avenue to explore artistically.