RAG-art: Build Your Own Art Expert with ollama

I built myself a personal AI art history assistant https://github.com/lololerigolo60/RAG-art/tree/main I love art history but I have way too many books, PDFs, and notes scattered everywhere. So I built myself a little app to help me actually use all of it. Here's what it can do: Reads my library for me. I feed it PDFs and text files (art history books, articles, notes), and it organizes everything so I can search and ask questions about it later. I can chat with it. I can ask things like "what do we know about this painter's use of color" and it digs through everything I've fed it to answer, remembering our conversation as we go. It looks at paintings and describes them. I can show it a picture of an artwork and it writes up an art-critical analysis — style, composition, technique — which then gets added to its memory too. It searches the web when needed. It can pull info from Wikipedia and the Met Museum's collection, show me what it found, and I decide what's worth keeping. It helps me write image prompts. For a creative project of mine, it turns everything it has learned into structured prompts I can use to generate new artwork inspired by real art history. The best part: it all runs on my own computer, nothing gets sent to the cloud. It's basically a private research assistant that grows smarter about art the more I use it. Still a work in progress, but it's already become a genuinely useful tool for my art research. Happy to answer questions! https://preview.redd.it/ia2156hd8iih1.png?width=1844&format=png&auto=webp&s=b528d93ae5d57a32c767db00ac3237b1e111f0a2 https://preview.redd.it/exowt5hd8iih1.png?width=2067&format=png&auto=webp&s=d4386478bf2b547c383e279e6eb35125a30ff9dd https://preview.redd.it/uxkbh6hd8iih1.png?width=2073&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7df813bb01eac63beae2540d974d33a6914f690 submitted by /u/lololerigolo60 [link] [comments]

Source: r/ollama | 2026-08-10