Back to Back with a Copy: A Computational Analysis of AI-Generated Visual Contemporary Art Pastiches

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20127v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:30:07 GMT
• Title: Back to Back with a Copy: A Computational Analysis of AI-Generated Visual Contemporary Art Pastiches
• Abstract summary: This paper investigates whether newer generative models are getting better at pastiching contemporary artworks.<n>We analyze stylistic similarity between AI generated pastiches and the original artworks of twelve contemporary artists.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it investigates whether newer generative models are getting better at pastiching contemporary artworks. Second, it explores the consistency of the multidimensional nature of stylistic evaluation across different LLMs. Building on previous work, we analyze stylistic similarity between AI generated pastiches and the original artworks of twelve contemporary artists. We used five complementary computer vision models to capture texture, color, semantics, composition, and perceptual features through cosine distance in high-dimensional embedding spaces. The distances obtained show that the newer image generation model that we used has produced pastiches with improved semantic alignment and greater diversity than the model used in previous work. However, it was slightly less performant on shallow features such as color, texture, and perceptual adherence. Our findings confirm that artistic style is inherently multidimensional, and measuring it does not depend on any spatial architecture. These quantitative findings are contextualized through feedback from human evaluators, which are the artists themselves.

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