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Complexity Scale and Aesthetic Judgments of Color Combinations
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Ako Tsutsui and Gentarow Ohmi, 2011,29:1,1 - 15
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The present research constructed a complexity scale of color combinations and examined whether the scale can account for aesthetic judgments. Twenty-eight Japanese undergraduate students rated 96 color combinations on scales of complexity, pleasantness, and interestingness. In two factors of composing color combinations, complexity was defined by both factors of the color relations (similarity or contrast between component colors) and of the number of colors. This confirms that the subjective complexity scale in color combinations is well explained by compositions of these two factors. Pleasantness showed a relationship with complexity suggestive of an inverted-U function in mean ratings; however, the relationship between interestingness and complexity was linear. These relations suggest that the complexity scale is closely related to the aesthetic judgments.
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A Dynamic and Ecological Approach to the Artistic Creative Process of Arts Students: An Empirical Contribution
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Marion Botella, Franck Zenasni, Todd Lubart, 2011,29:1,17 - 38
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The creative process in artistic work is examined. The creative process has often been considered in terms of a sequence of stages that leads to a creative product. A dynamic approach to the artistic creative process, including an affective component is proposed. Two studies with art students were conducted. Results support our hypothesis that the creative artistic process is not exclusively sequential and linear. Moreover, students' affects tended to vary at each phase of the creative process.
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When Film Critics Agree: Does Film Genre Matter?
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Jules J. Wanderer, 2011,29:1,39 - 50
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This article reports the results of an analysis of patterns of "agreements" and "disagreements" among 45 professional critics' ratings of over 1300 films. These ratings—awarded along a scale from 0 to 5 stars—were examined, first, to determine whether increases in the sheer number of critics rating a film was associated with its average rating; second, to determine whether the number of ratings was more or less related to levels of agreement among critics' ratings; and third, to determine whether certain types of films (genres) were more likely to produce ratings agreement than others. Chi-square tests supported the contention that film genres were not distributed proportionally in subsets of films with very high and very low levels of ratings agreement, ranging, for example, from most agreement for horror films, to least, for dramas.
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Where Does One Look When Viewing Artwork in a Museum?
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Susan M. Heidenreichand Kathleen A. Turano, 2011,29:1,51 - 72
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Four participants viewed artwork (5 abstract and 9 representational paintings) displayed in a museum, while wearing a portable eye tracker. We tested whether features in the paintings would determine the viewers' saccade-fixation patterns and viewing times. Participants produced unique eye-movement patterns that varied with each painting, regardless of genre. Some fixations clustered on features, predefined as informative of a narrative illustrated by the painting, whereas other fixations fell on homogenous patches of color; however, the features selected for fixation varied considerably across viewers and paintings. Participants' mean fixation durations for abstract artwork increased as viewing time progressed, suggesting that eye movement patterns change over time. Participants' aesthetic judgments of the paintings were not significantly correlated with fixation durations or viewing time, contrary to our predictions. Results are discussed in terms of cognitive factors that may influence eye movements made when viewing artwork in a real-world setting.
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Finding Movies Interesting: How Appraisals and Expertise Influence the Aesthetic Experience of Film
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Paul J. Silvia and Christopher Berg, 2011,29:1,73 - 88
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Film and television are major parts of everyday aesthetic experience, but not much is known about viewers' aesthetic experience of motion picture media. We explored how interest and confusion in response to film were predicted by people's cognitive appraisals and level of expertise. People who varied in expertise viewed 10 film clips taken from submissions to a local film festival. For each film, people gave ratings of interest, confusion, and their relevant appraisals. Expertise was measured with a preliminary Aesthetic Fluency in Film scale. Multilevel models showed that appraising a film clip as complex and comprehensible predicted interest, a finding that replicates past interest research. Additionally, appraising a film clip as complex and incomprehensible predicted confusion. Experts in film found the films more interesting and less confusing overall, and their interest was more strongly predicted by complexity.
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The Reader in the Text: The Construction of Literary Characters
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Aldo Nemesio, M. Chiara Levorato, Lucia Ronconi, 2011,29:1,89 - 109
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When we read the description of a character, we receive explicit information and construct a semantic representation of his/her aspect and personality. This constructive process also involves inferential processes based on the elaboration of explicit information. In this article we examined the first introduction of four female characters in Italian novels. When readers reported information that was not given in the texts, we had evidence of their constructive processes based on their inferences and world knowledge. In our study readers tended to concretize traits that were not explicitly stated in the text, with high values of the Gini index, showing different concretizations in different readers. This tendency was quite pervasive among readers, regardless of gender, academic education and interest in the text read; such constructive process seems to be intrinsic to the act of reading itself.
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Genius: A Son of His Time or a Rara Avis?
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Vladimir M. Petrov and Paul J. Locher, 2011,29:1,111 - 128
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European artistic geniuses (5 composers and 10 painters of the 15th to 19th centuries) and comparison groups of their less-gifted contemporaries were analyzed on the basis of the stylistic parameters of their works using archival and expert rating techniques. The parameters reflected the artists' orientation regarding the "analytic" versus "synthetic" poles of creativity and perception, which are usually associated with left- or right-hemispheric prevalence, respectively. Findings reveal that the artists within a comparison group were stylistically similar with respect to the nature of their creative processes, that is, they reflected an artistic zeitgeist for their historical era. The genius artists exhibited significant deviations from their lesser contemporaries on many of the stylistic parameters measured (which reflect the phenomenon of "rara avis" described in the article). The implications of this phenomenon for the progressive development of new art forms over time are briefly discussed.
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