Paints from a basement near you. Hates the outdoors, loves art:

• Gallery
• Twitter

Painter Goblin Twitter Bot. Inspired by a Zine I created in 2015. The zine in turn was inspired by a Reddit user comment. I thought it cool so figured I'd give it a whirl.

Paints new images from Wikidata. The algorithm is simple. Enhance contrast, enhance brightness. This makes muddy images less blurry. Enhance contrast and then convert to paletted image and swap in a randomized curated palette from the collection.

He enjoys his work, I hope you do!

Lioness Reclining, Eugène Delacroix, Minneapolis Institute of Art:

Die Sterrenag, Vincent van Gogh, Museum of Modern Art:

Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix, French paintings, room 77:

Macomb's Dam Hotel, M. A. Sullivan, Metropolitan Museum of Art:

• Paintergoblin.py - creates the images, can be run standalone
• Wikigoblin.py - retrieves data to tweet from the Wikidata SPARQL services
• Twittergoblin.py - Tweets for us! Either a random Wikidata image or from am existing Wikidata link

Categories of Image:

• imgprint = "Q11060274"
• imgdrawing = "Q93184"
• imgphoto = "Q125191"
• imgwatercolor = "Q18761202"
• imgpainting = "Q3305213"
• imgwoodcutprint = "Q18219090"
• imgpastel = "Q12043905"
• imgposter = "Q429785"
• imgnone = None

Counts as of July 2017

3756 Prints
1044 Drawings
2614 Photos, 49 not from NatLib Wales or Scotland
1250 Watercolors
60501 Paintings
44 Woodcut Prints
320 Pastels
38 Posters

Example count in SPARQL:

SELECT (COUNT (DISTINCT ?item) as ?count) WHERE {
    ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q429785.
    ?item wdt:P18 ?image.
    OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P276 ?loc . }
    ?item wdt:P195 ?coll .
    ?item wdt:P170 ?artist .
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,fr,de,it"}
}

Gallery code is provided by Andy Zhang please support their work. It has made it incredibly easy for me to provide some level of gallery support for the Painter Goblin's work.

• To install: bundle install
• To run: bundle exec jekyll serve

GPL v3.0