WeART: 280,000 Artworks Across 152 Styles and 1,556 Artists

WeART provides 280,000+ artworks labeled with 152 styles and 1,556 artists, published by ZexiJia in 2026. It functions as a multimodal benchmark for artistic style analysis, addressing gaps in cultural coverage and annotation completeness found in previous art collections.

Use Cases

• Fine-tuning image classifiers to recognize 152 distinct artistic styles across various historical periods
• Developing style retrieval systems that utilize the artist and style labels to find visually similar works
• Evaluating the stylistic fidelity of generative models by comparing synthetic images against the 1,556 unique artist profiles

Strengths

• 280,000+ artwork records
• 152 distinct style categories
• 1,556 unique artists represented
• Multimodal format supporting both vision and text tasks

Limitations

• Specific metadata schema and column headers are not explicitly defined in the source summary
• Potential for subjective style classification in cross-cultural contexts

Provenance

Source

ZexiJia, ICASSP 2026 / Arxiv 2601.17697

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Global