The Artalytics Framework
Three dimensions, five proprietary metric families per dimension
The idea in one paragraph
Art valuation has historically relied on subjective appraisal. The Artalytics framework replaces a portion of that subjectivity with reproducible measurement derived from canvas-file metadata — every stroke, every session, every palette change the artist produced. We quantify three dimensions of creation — Time & Effort, Skill & Artistry, and Complexity & Detail — and score each artwork as a percentile within the same artist’s portfolio. The output is not “this is a 92-point painting”; it is “this is a 92nd-percentile work for this artist, along this dimension.”
Why portfolio-relative measurement works · Score methodology · Validation framework
Three dimensions
Each dimension captures a different axis of creation. A work can be peak-effort but stylistically simple, or highly complex but technically rough — the three scores together describe the character of the work in a way that any single global rating cannot.
Dimension 1
Time & Effort
Measures the labor investment and creative energy represented by the work, using five proprietary creation-process metric families calibrated within the artist’s portfolio.Dimension 2
Skill & Artistry
Captures technical control and artistic execution quality through five proprietary metric families covering color handling, transitions, stroke discipline, and technique signature.Dimension 3
Complexity & Detail
Evaluates compositional depth and fine-detail execution through five proprietary metric families covering spatial density, temporal stability, color structure, and planning signals.Each dimension aggregates five proprietary metric families into a 0-100 score. Public documentation explains what each dimension measures and how the scores should be read. Private documentation contains the full named metric set and implementation detail for qualified review.
The unit of comparison: the artist’s own portfolio
A 90 in Time & Effort does not mean “90 out of 100 artists globally.” It means “90th percentile within this artist’s own body of work.” This framing is deliberate, and it’s load-bearing for the whole framework:
- Style-robust. An abstract expressionist and a hyperrealist have incomparable absolute ranges on most metrics. Portfolio-relative ranking sidesteps that.
- Intent-aware. A minimalist artist’s low Complexity & Detail score is not a deficiency — it’s their baseline. What’s informative is where this work sits against their baseline.
- Noise-resistant. Within-portfolio comparisons remove systematic scale differences that would dominate a global ranking.
The full reasoning, including limits and confidence thresholds, is covered in Framework Overview and Score Methodology.
How a score is produced
- Canvas-file metadata is loaded for each artwork in the artist’s portfolio.
- Proprietary metric families are computed as fixed mathematical functions of that metadata — no subjective input, no human rating.
- Per-metric percentiles are computed across the artist’s portfolio.
- Per-dimension scores average the five relevant metric percentiles into a single 0–100 value.
- Confidence level is assigned based on portfolio size (high / medium / low).
Every step is deterministic. Re-running the pipeline on the same portfolio produces the same scores.
Details, edge cases, and confidence thresholds are in Score Methodology.
What the framework does not do
- No universal “quality” ranking. Cross-artist absolute comparisons are not supported by this framework and not the goal.
- No aesthetic judgment. Metrics describe labor, technique, and complexity — not beauty, meaning, or market demand.
- No replacement for appraisal. Framework outputs inform but do not substitute for certified appraisal, provenance research, or market analysis.
- No prediction of price. Correlation studies between scores and market outcomes are part of the validation roadmap, not an established result.
Where to go next
- Understand the dimensions — start with Time & Effort, Skill & Artistry, or Complexity & Detail. Public pages describe the foundation; private/internal profiles include the named metric detail.
- Understand the scoring — Score Methodology walks through percentile calculation, confidence levels, limitations, and multi-dimensional interpretation.
- Understand the philosophy — Framework Overview explains why we measure what we measure, and why portfolio-relative.
- Understand the validation plan — Validation Framework is explicit about what has been tested today and what is still design-stage.
- Understand the applications — Art Finance & Lending is the most developed application surface.