A quantitative study of stylistic differences between Giacometti and his contemporaries based on big data modeling

Based on the view that artistic style is mainly reflected in sculpture and painting, the sculpture and painting style of Giacometti is analyzed in depth. Starting from the scope of application of big data technology, the theoretical knowledge based on information theory is proposed to explore the differences in the styles of Giacometti and his contemporaries, and the basic concepts used in the processing are defined, including Shannon entropy, conditional entropy, and interactive information. Redundancy, orderliness, and complexity are set as eigenvalues that can characterize the style of art works, and the eigenvalues of the style of Giacometti and contemporaneous artists are analyzed. The minimum, maximum, and average values of the complexity of Picasso’s works are 207, 991, and 596, respectively, while the values of the three indexes of the complexity of Giacometti’s art works are 446, 990, and 718, respectively, and on the whole, the complexity of Picasso’s works is smaller than that of Giacometti’s works. This paper comprehensively reveals the stylistic differences between Giacometti and his contemporaries through the analysis of quantitative characteristic indexes.