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| Volume 30 Issue 1
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Editorial
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Oshin Vartanian, 2012,30:1,1 - 2
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Aesthetics & Design!?
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Ralf Weber, 2012,30:1,3 - 6
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Eye Movements on Facades: The Subjective Perception of Balance in Architecture and Its Link to Aesthetic Judgment
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Catrin Hasse and Ralf Weber, 2012,30:1,7 - 22
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For architects, designing the visible form of buildings is usually intuitive, but sometimes it is a rationally-based exercise in arranging forms and masses into a balanced yet dynamic whole. Does this mean that the balance of a facade's composition influences assessments of its beauty? A study was conducted to test how judgments of beauty, balance, dynamism, and interest in a facade depend on compositional balance, and if there are differences between how architects and non-architects judge the facades. Eye movements were also recorded. The results demonstrated that compositional balance affected judgments of balance, dynamism, and interest, but not judgments of beauty. The link between balance and aesthetic judgments was moderated by expertise in architecture and viewing time. Furthermore, balance oriented the gaze, and evoked a shift of eye movements toward the lower left side of compositions. The implications of the findings for the relation between balance and beauty are discussed.
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Global Perception, Meaning, and Aesthetic Appreciation
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Kathleen M. Moore and Alan N. West, 2012,30:1,23 - 38
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Studies show meaningfulness overshadows collative variables in determining aesthetic preferences, and this meaning effect can occur very quickly, requiring only very brief visual information. Observers can understand the gist of a natural scene in a glance, even when the images are blurred. By manipulating spatial frequencies, we varied the image resolution of Realist, Impressionist, Cubist, and Abstract Expressionist paintings, and asked participants with no artistic training to rate them on Meaning, Preference, Complexity, Unity and Variety (each subject saw one level of blur/clarity). No matter how blurred the images, Realist and Impressionist paintings were judged more preferable and meaningful than Cubist and Abstract Expressionist art, and within the former styles meaning was the best predictor of preferences. Results support Martindale's theory of cognitive hedonics, which ascribes aesthetic preference to the net activation of semantic modules.
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Characteristic Color Use in Different Film Genres
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I-Ping Chen, Fang-Yi Wu, Chih-Hsiang Lin, 2012,30:1,39 - 57
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The purpose of this study was to develop a color analysis protocol for studying use of colors in films. The typical color use in films of romance, comedy, horror, sci-fi, and action genres was evaluated. A custom-made software was used for extracting contrast, saturation, brightness, red, green, yellow and blue values from all sampled frames. We found that among the chosen five film categories, patterns of coloring could be divided into two groups—one comprised romance and comedy, and the other horror, sci-fi, and action. Colors in romance and comedy tend to have higher contrast and brightness and are rich in red and yellow while in horror, sci-fi and action it is the reverse. Sci-fi films usually show the highest average standard deviation of brightness, as well as red, green, yellow, and blue among these five film categories. This indicates that colors of sci-fi films tend to vary greatly as the story progresses. The color analysis protocol developed in this study can be a valuable tool for exploring the aesthetic functions of colors in films.
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Contrast and Assimilation in Aesthetic Judgments of Visual Artworks
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Emanuele Arielli , 2012,30:1,59 - 74
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Contrast effects occur when an individual judges a target stimulus as being further removed from its position on some dimension than it actually is, due to exposure to a context stimulus presenting an opposite value on this dimension. In assimilation effects, on the contrary, the reverse occurs such that judgment about the target is brought nearer to the context stimulus. The objective of this article is to verify whether assimilation and contrast can be observed in aesthetic evaluation of visual artworks. The results demonstrated that when the context stimulus was formally similar to one of two artworks used in the comparison (the target) but aesthetically slightly inferior to it, an assimilation effect was observed. In contrast, when the context stimulus was formally similar to the target but definitely of inferior aesthetic quality, a contrast effect was observed. These results demonstrate the impact of contextual factors on aesthetic judgment.
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The Physiology of Phenomenology: The Effects of Artworks
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Martin Tröndle and Wolfgang Tschacher , 2012,30:1,75 - 113
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In a five-year long research project "eMotion—mapping museum experience," we assessed which effects artworks had on museum visitors and their behavior in the field. We tested several hypotheses such as: Does a famous work attract more attention than a less renowned one, and a "loud" artwork more than a subtle one? Do similar artworks generate similar visitor reactions? Does an artwork lose its attraction if manipulated? To investigate these questions, experiments were conducted using special technology that allowed tracking of visitors' physical locomotion and continuous measurement of physiological markers in the gallery. We also recorded visitors' general subjective assessments of their museum experience, and with respect to specific artworks. Using this innovative approach, we were able to demonstrate strong correlations between artworks, the physical reactions of the visitors, their spatial behavior, and aesthetic ratings.
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How to Find Refutations of the Golden Section Without Really Trying
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Christopher D. Green , 2012,30:1,115 - 122
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For over 150 years, many people have claimed that the number popularly known as the Golden Section has particularly appealing aesthetic properties when incorporated into the proportions of visual artworks. Although the empirical evidence for these claims has been equivocal, in the 1980s an important mathematical argument seemed to show that many, perhaps nearly all, empirical discoveries of the legendary number in art and nature were probably mathematical artifacts. This article overturns that argument as being, itself, the artifact of an unrealistic assumption.
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