Aesthetics Archaeology - Dimensions of Aesthetics in Ancient China Series

By Yinglin Zhou & Jieyuan Huang

Painting & Graphic Design

Aesthetic AI Archaeology combines an examination of the aesthetic process of ancient Chinese art with a technical exploration of image generation by artificial intelligence. Beginning in the early Warring States period and continuing through the Qing Dynasty, artists systematically analyzed elements of aesthetics in art, using images that represent its characteristics to train a finetune low-rank adaptation model based on a diffusion-based macromodel. By analyzing more than 12,000 high-definition images of ancient Chinese paintings and millions of words from an archive of literature on ancient Chinese art and aesthetics, the artists established a basic framework for the dimensions of aesthetics in ancient China, and refined image training sets and keywords to create high-quality image models. Based on the trained model, the artist generated a large number of images and drawings with typical characteristics of ancient times, and used them to synthesize them again, with hundreds of layers superimposed on each drawing to form large-scale paintings, thus presenting the characteristics of ancient Chinese aesthetics and magnificent dimensions mined by AI.