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However, the traditional GAN latent space presents feature entanglement, which limits the practicability of possible applications of DeepIE. In this paper, we implement DeepIE within a style-based generator from a StyleGAN model trained on the WikiArt dataset and propose StyleIE, a variation of DeepIE that takes advantage of the secondary disentangled latent space in the style-based generator. We performed two AB\/BA crossover user tests that compared the performance of DeepIE against StyleIE for art generation. Self-rated evaluations of the performance were collected through a questionnaire. 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