The Influence of Figurative Images and Catalogue Information on the Aesthetic Perception of Contemporary Painting Among Expert and Naive Viewers
Keywords:
contemporary art, aesthetic perception, representational and abstract paintings, expertiseAbstract
The aim of the article is to examine the aesthetic perception of figurative and abstract paintings by groups of naive and experienced viewers with or without the knowledge of the information provided in the catalogue. The experiment was based on the theoretical concept of viewing the paintings from the perspective of form, content and axiology. The results of the research suggest that naive viewers can find the reception of the formal level of contemporary art difficult. They are also inclined to experience difficulties in the interpretation of abstract paintings. This, however, can be facilitated by providing them with the catalogue description.References
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Jackowski, A. (1997). O rzeźbach i rzeźbiarzach. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Krupski i S-ka.
Leder, H., Belke, B., Oeberst, A., Augustin, D. (2004). A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments. British Journal of Psychology, 95, 489-508.
Leder, H., Gerger, G., Brieber, D., Schwarz, N. (2014). What makes an art expert? Emotion and evaluation in art appreciation. Cognition & Emotion, 28, 1137-1147.
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Markiewicz, P., Przybysz, P. (2007). Neuroestetyczne aspekty komunikacji wizualnej i wyobraźni. W: P. Francuz (red.), Obrazy w umyśle. Studia nad percepcją i wyobraźnią (s. 111-148). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar.
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Niestorowicz, E. (2007). Świat w umyśle i rzeźbie osób głuchoniewidomych. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej.
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Pietras, K. (2014). Osobowość i wiedza ekspercka jako wyznaczniki percepcji współczesnej sztuki wizualnej. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Psychologica, VII, 24-37.
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Popek, S. (1999). Barwy i psychika. Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej.
Ramachandran, V.S., Hirstein, W. (1999). The science of art. a neurological theory of aesthetic experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, 15-51.
Schepman, A., Rodway, P., Pullen, S.J. (2015). Greater cross-viewer similarity of semantic associations for representational than for abstract artworks. Journal of Vision, 15. DOI: 10.1167/15.14.12.
Schepman, A., Rodway, P., Pullen, S.J., Kirkham, J. (2015). Shared liking and association valence for representational art but not abstract art. Journal of Vision, 15. DOI: 10.1167/15.5.11.
Trojan, A. (1973). Sztuka czarnej Afryki. Dzieje, kultura, wierzenia. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna.
van Paasschen, J., Bacci, F., Melcher, D.P. (2015). The influence of art expertise and training on emotion and preference ratings for representational and abstract artworks. PLoS ONE, 10: e0134241. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134241.
Waligórska, A. (2006). The eye and narration: Relations of artistic expertise and mode of interpretation of narrative and non-narrative paintings. Psychology of Language and Communication, 10, 45-64.
Winston, A.S., Cupchik, G.C. (1992). The evaluation of high art and popular art by naive and experienced viewers. Visual Art Research, 18, 1-14.
Zangemeister, W., Sherman, K., Stark, L. (1995). Evidence for a global scanpath strategy in viewing abstract compared with realistic images. Neuropsychologia, 33, 1009-1025.
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Szubielska, M., Niestorowicz, E., & Bałaj, B. (2016). The Influence of Figurative Images and Catalogue Information on the Aesthetic Perception of Contemporary Painting Among Expert and Naive Viewers. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Psychologica, 9(1), 21–34. Retrieved from https://studia-psychologica.uken.krakow.pl/article/view/5621
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