Artistic augmented reality (ARTAR) is a method to add extra levels of perceptions by including animations, music and sound to paintings. It helps the viewers to get immersed in the feelings associated with the artwork. When a painting is scanned using a mobile device, spectators feel the illusion of the painting getting animated along with music and sound. ARTAR works by recognizing a predefined image portion in the camera frames coming from the mobile device, and replacing them with frames of animation. Also the sound associated with the animation is played. SURF detector along with BRISK descriptor is used to recognize the reference image portion.