Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.1163/22134913-bja10026
M. Sinico, Marco Bertamini, A. Soranzo
A large number of studies have focused on the aesthetic value of smoothly curved objects. By contrast, angular shapes tend to be associated with tertiary qualities such as threat, hardness, loudness, nervousness, etc. The present study focuses on the effect of curvilinearity vs angularity on the aesthetic experience of design artefacts. We used the drawings of everyday objects with novel shapes created by 56 designers (IUAV image dataset). Each drawing had two versions: a smooth and an angular version. To test new tertiary associations, beyond aesthetic value, we obtained ratings for seven characteristics (‘soft/hard, sad/cheerful, male/female, bad/good, aggressive/peaceful, agitated/serene, useless/useful’) from 174 naïve observers. Importantly, each naïve rater saw only one of the two versions of an object. The results confirmed a significant relation between smoothness and hardness as well as other (tertiary) associations. The link between smoothness and usefulness confirms that perceptual utility is significantly influenced by the shape of the object. This finding suggests that tertiary qualities convey both static and functional information about design objects. The role of perceptual constraints in drawing design artefacts is also discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-31DOI: 10.1163/22134913-BJA10025
V. Charlin, Arturo Cifuentes
Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square series comprises a vast ensemble of compositions based on similar arrays of nested squares. The main difference among these paintings is the colors employed. Therefore, they constitute an almost natural experiment to explore color preferences. We focus on the relationship between the prices paid in public auctions for these paintings and their color attributes over a fourteen-year period. We describe the attributes of the color palette using several color-related metrics aimed at capturing dominant colors, color diversity and contrast, color harmony, and color emotions. We find that color-related metrics explain a great deal of the price variation in Albers’ Squares series. Intriguingly, dominant colors and emotions are the key variables, while color harmony, contrast and diversity play no role at all. We also find that the market favors lighter tones and bluer hues. Additionally, the analyses reveal that Albers, judged by the prices commanded by his paintings, was a quintessential experimentalist ‒ as opposed to a conceptual artist. That is, an artist who kept improving as he gained more experience playing with the same concept over and over. It is worth noting that using market prices to study color preferences or judge aesthetic merits can provide different insights regarding color preferences and color perception, given the fact that most color preference studies are carried out in experimental or artificial settings, where the subjects do not have any direct interests at stake.
约瑟夫·阿尔伯斯（Josef Albers）的《向广场致敬》（Homage to the Square）系列包含了大量基于类似嵌套正方形阵列的作品。这些画的主要区别在于所用的颜色。因此，它们构成了一个探索颜色偏好的几乎自然的实验。我们关注的是在14年的时间里，这些画作在公开拍卖中的价格与其颜色属性之间的关系。我们使用几个与颜色相关的指标来描述调色板的属性，这些指标旨在捕捉主色、颜色多样性和对比度、颜色和谐和颜色情感。我们发现，与颜色相关的指标可以解释阿尔伯斯平方系列中的大量价格变化。有趣的是，主要的色彩和情感是关键变量，而色彩的和谐、对比和多样性根本不起作用。我们还发现，市场青睐浅色和蓝色。此外，分析显示，根据阿尔伯斯画作的价格判断，阿尔伯斯是一位典型的实验主义者，而不是概念艺术家。也就是说，一个艺术家不断进步，因为他一次又一次地使用同一概念获得了更多的经验。值得注意的是，考虑到大多数颜色偏好研究都是在实验或人工环境中进行的，在这些环境中，受试者没有任何直接利益关系，因此使用市场价格来研究颜色偏好或判断审美价值可以提供关于颜色偏好和颜色感知的不同见解。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.1163/22134913-BJA10011
M. Iosifyan
Theory of mind is a cognitive ability that enables us to understand mental states of others, important in real-life communications as well as in aesthetic cognition. The present research investigated whether understanding intentions and emotions is related to aesthetic appreciation. Study 1 tested whether there is a link between aesthetic appreciation of cinematic films and attempts to understand the intentions and emotions of the artists and the film characters. It showed that a self-reported understanding of emotions and intentions is positively associated with aesthetic appreciation. Studies 2 and 4 investigated a causal relationship between the attempt to understand emotions and an aesthetic appreciation of artistic photos. Study 3 investigated an actual understanding of emotions and aesthetic appreciation of movie shots. The results show that when people evaluate the emotional state of the characters, they aesthetically appreciate artistic photos more, compared to when they evaluate non-mental characteristics of these photos (age of the characters, the colour of the photos). Moreover, better understanding of another’s emotions is related to greater aesthetic appreciation.
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