Artificial intelligence has a lot of influence in the art field, and its value is recognized as the works of art are sold in the auction market. There is the deep learning method which has been recently used in AlphaGo, and it is a system that mimics ...
Artificial intelligence has a lot of influence in the art field, and its value is recognized as the works of art are sold in the auction market. There is the deep learning method which has been recently used in AlphaGo, and it is a system that mimics the process of human’s perceiving the world and recognizing the object. As AI begins to use this deep learning method, artificial intelligence wrote jazz music, completed the work of Rembrandt by learning the styles of famous artists, and produced Chun Lian(春聯). Such artificial intelligence is expected to have an influence in the field of calligraphy and painting. In this study, thus, to evaluate and diagnose such phenomena aesthetically, I investigated the unique worldview of calligraphy and painting and examined the possibility of artificial intelligence in realizing the spirit in the worldview.
The aesthetic consciousness of calligraphy and painting can be examined through the Book of the Changes which tries to clarify the origin of life and the principle of life through which all things are made. The correlative relationship of yin and yang is a life principle of all things and embraces the aesthetic possibility as a principle of change and creation of art. That can be confirmed through the theory of calligraphy and painting of Kim Jeong-hui, Bu Yantu(布顔圖), and Shao Meichen(邵梅臣). They said that the vitality of the nature could be reproduced when understanding the creating principle of the universe based on ‘the Way that yin and yang successively move[一陰一陽之謂道]’. In addition, they decided that the artistic creativity, which had ‘the Spirit that they cannot assess yin and yang[陰陽不測之謂神]’, could emerge when they understand and express the principle of change which yin and yang complement and embrace each other.
On the other hand, until now, the driving system of deep learning basically finds the correct answer by recognizing the small unit in the lower level and the higher unit as it goes up. In this process, the answers found by the neurons in the lower level are often inaccurate. Therefore, because of its narrow view, it causes distortions like they perceived Michelangelo’s <The Creation of Adam>. As such, at the current level of artificial intelligence technology, it seems to be difficult for AI to recognize the significance of ‘stroke’, which is important in calligraphy and painting, and to expect a form that is full of vitality. In addition, because the calligrapher’s or painter’s love for life is not based on a copy and a logical understanding but a stage of experience and inspiration, there is a limit to make the machine learn it. Ultimately, even if artificial intelligence can reach a level that mimics an artist’s consciousness, so that fundamental learning about East Asian art becomes possible, it still remains a question of judging whether or not it is merely the manifestation of an artist by AI.