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Slobodan Marković

THE AESTHETIC DIMENSION OF THE PERCEPTION OF PAINTINGS. Slobodan Marković. Laboratory of Experimental Psychology University of Belgrade, Serbia. AESTHETIC PREFERENCE. Continuous dimension. Beautiful = Pleasant. Ugly = Unpleasant. Dubuffet. Renoir. Modigliani. AESTHETIC PREFERENCE.

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Slobodan Marković

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  1. THE AESTHETIC DIMENSION OF THE PERCEPTION OF PAINTINGS Slobodan Marković Laboratory of Experimental Psychology University of Belgrade, Serbia

  2. AESTHETIC PREFERENCE Continuous dimension Beautiful = Pleasant Ugly = Unpleasant

  3. Dubuffet Renoir Modigliani AESTHETIC PREFERENCE Continuous dimension Beautiful = Pleasant Ugly = Unpleasant

  4. Aesthetic experience No aesthetic experience AESTHETIC PREFERENCE EXPERIENCE Exceptional state of mind

  5. AESTHETIC PREFERENCE EXPERIENCE Exceptional state of mind Czikszentmihalyi (1990): Flow Telegan i Atkinson (1974): Absorption Kabat-Zinn (1998): Mindfulness Kubovy (1999): Pleasures of the mind FASCINATION:Focus on object TRANCENDENCE:Virtual reality MENTAL PLEASURE:Extraordinary experience

  6. Botticelli AESTHETIC PREFERENCE EXPERIENCE Aesthetic objects All objects can be aesthetic: artistic pieces, natural scenes …

  7. AESTHETIC PREFERENCE EXPERIENCE Aesthetic objects All objects can be aesthetic: artistic pieces, natural scenes …

  8. Leonardo Durer van Dongen AESTHETIC PREFERENCE EXPERIENCE Aesthetic objects Aesthetic experience is invariant in the different emotional states

  9. Rousseau Klimt Corinth Lempicka Stuck Gogi Gvido Reni Giza AESTHETIC PREFERENCE EXPERIENCE

  10. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY • This study investigated • the structure of aesthetic experience the relationship of this structure and other dimensions of the subjective judgements of paintings.

  11. SUBJECTIVE JUDGEMENTS OF PAINTINGS Marković, S. & Radonjić, A. (2008). Implicit and explicit features of paintings. Spatial Vision, 21 (3-5), 229-259. HEDONIC TONE pleasant beautiful healthy REGULARITY regular arranged precise AROUSAL impressive strong interesting RELAXATION calming warm serene

  12. EXPERIMENT Descriptors of aesthetic experience FASCINATING IRRESISTIBLE UNIQUE ETERNAL PROFOUND EXCEPTIONAL UNIVERSAL UNSPEAKABLE I would like to have this painting

  13. METHOD Subjects: 26 students of Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Belgrade Stimuli: 24 paintings used in previous study (Marković & Radonjić, 2008) Procedure:Paintings were judged on 9 unipolar scales (1-7) FASCINATING IRRESISTIBLE UNIQUE ETERNAL PROFOUND EXCEPTIONAL UNIVERSAL UNSPEAKABLE I would like to have this painting 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

  14. Ancient Figural Stylized Abstract

  15. RESULTS Principle component analysis String out matrix (Osgood , May & Miron, 1975)

  16. RESULTS Principle component analysis Principle component (60,88%) • EXCEPTIONAL.876 • FASCINATING.849 • IRRESISTIBLE.849 • I would like to have this painting .807 • ETERNAL .779 • PROFOUND.773 • UNIQUE.737 • UNSPEAKABLE.686 • UNIVERSAL.632

  17. RESULTS Regression analysis AE: Average judgments on 9 scales (exceptional, fascinating, irresistible …) Predictors: Four dimensions of subjective judgments HEDONIC TONE pleasant beautiful healthy REGULARITY regular arranged precise AROUSAL impressive strong interesting RELAXATION calming warm serene

  18. RESULTS Regression analysis Multiple regression coefficient: r2= 391 not significant Partial contributions: HEDONIC TONE AROUSAL REGULARITY RELAXATION

  19. RESULTS Regression analysis Multiple regression coefficient: r2= 391 not significant Partial contributions: b t p .536 2.218 .045 HEDONIC TONE AROUSAL r2 = .227, p < .05 REGULARITY RELAXATION

  20. AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AROUSAL exceptional fascinating irresistible impressive strong interesting HEDONIC TONE pleasant beautiful healthy RESULTS

  21. CONCLUSIONS • The aesthetic experience is a unique and relatively independent phenomenon: • Internally, it is not dividable into components • Externally, it is weakly correlated with the other subjective dimensions of paintings perception. The aesthetic experience is closer to the Arousal, than to the Hedonic tone and the other subjective dimensions of paintings

  22. AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AESTHETIC FASCINATION

  23. AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AESTHETIC FASCINATION Escher

  24. Witkin AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AESTHETIC FASCINATION

  25. Witkin AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AESTHETIC FASCINATION

  26. AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AESTHETIC FASCINATION

  27. Ancient Figural Stylized Abstract 21 paintings 21 paintings 21 paintings 21 paintings Selection of representative paintings Marković, S. & Radonjić, A. (2008). Implicit and explicit features of paintings. Spatial Vision, 21 (3-5), 229-259. Paired similarity-dissimilarity ratings of paintings within each given category Multi-dimensional Scaling of ratings

  28. 2,0 1,5 1,0 0,5 0,0 - 0,5 - 1,0 - 1,5 - 2,0 - 1,0 0,0 1,0 2,0 3,0 Selection of representative paintings Marković, S. & Radonjić, A. (2008). Implicit and explicit features of paintings. Spatial Vision, 21 (3-5), 229-259.

  29. Selection of representative paintings Marković, S. & Radonjić, A. (2008). Implicit and explicit features of paintings. Spatial Vision, 21 (3-5), 229-259. MDS: 3-D space

  30. - - + + X X A1 A2 B1 B2 Y Y A3 A4 B3 B4 Z Z A6 A5 B6 B5 - + + - X X C1 C2 D1 D2 Y Y C3 C4 D3 D4 Z Z C6 C5 D6 D5

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