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Abstract4D: A Large-Scale Dataset and Framework for Understanding the Visual Language of Abstract Art

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 28, 2026 · UTC

Artificial intelligence can classify artistic styles and synthesize images, but it still lacks a model of the visual language that gives art meaning. Abstract painting minimizes object semantics and foregrounds structural cues, making it an ideal testbed for computational perception. We introduce \textbf{Abstract4D}, the largest dataset of abstract paintings to date: more than 120,000 images paired with rich metadata and multi-dimensional prompts that capture each work's perceptual attributes---\textit{form, color, texture, and composition}. Annotations are produced by a hybrid human--VLM pipe

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