Technologies related to artiﬁcial intelligence (AI) have a strong impact on the changes of research and
creative practices in visual arts. The growing number of research initiatives and creative applications
that emerge in the intersection of AI and art, motivates us to examine and discuss the creative and
explorative potentials of AI technologies in the context of art. This paper provides an integrated
review of two facets of AI and art: 1) AI is used for art analysis and employed on digitized artwork
collections; 2) AI is used for creative purposes and generating novel artworks. In the context of
AI-related research for art understanding, we present a comprehensive overview of artwork datasets
and recent works that address a variety of tasks such as classiﬁcation, object detection, similarity
retrieval, multimodal representations, computational aesthetics, etc. In relation to the role of AI in
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