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Being moved by modern abstract art [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Although being emotionally moved has been studied as a key dimension of appreciation in visual art research, it remains unclear whether this response truly reflects the distinct emotion of being moved and whether such a complex emotion can be reliably ...
Xiaohan Zhou, Helmut Leder
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Effects of hue and orientation on naturalness and preference: evidence from concrete and abstract art [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionIn previous research, we found that visual features such as hue and orientation can modulate individuals’ aesthetic preferences. Concrete art contains real world referential representations, whereas abstract art lacks specific referential ...
Xiao Wang, Yannan Zhang
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Taste in Art—Exposure to Histological Stains Shapes Abstract Art Preferences [PDF]

i-Perception, 2017
Exposure to art increases the appreciation of artworks. Here, we showed that this effect is domain independent. After viewing images of histological stains in a lecture, ratings increased for restricted subsets of abstract art images.
Antonia M. Böthig, Gregor U. Hayn-Leichsenring   +1 more
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Statistical Image Properties in Large Subsets of Traditional Art, Bad Art, and Abstract Art [PDF]

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2017
Several statistical image properties have been associated with large subsets of traditional visual artworks. Here, we investigate some of these properties in three categories of art that differ in artistic claim and prestige: (1) Traditional art of ...
Christoph Redies, Anselm Brachmann
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Geometric Abstract Art and Public Health Data [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
Salaam Semaan
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Machine Bodies: Performing Abstraction and Brazilian Art

Arts, 2020
In 1973, Analívia Cordeiro produced the videodance M3x3. Filmed in a Brazilian television studio and choreographed by Cordeiro with a computer, the work explores the limits of the human body through abstraction and its inhabitation of a new media ...
Mariola V. Alvarez
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"Symbolic significance in the abstract art of the artists (Kandinsky and Mondrian) And a reflection on postmodern arts to enrich the field of design enrich the field of design"

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2019
Research Summary: The new movements in the history of human thought are an expression of the contemporary style of the thought of that era; it gives new features to the identity of the human being.
Marwa Mohamed
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The Classification of the Substantive Arts

Aisthesis, 2022
In this paper, I discuss certain criteria for classifying the substantive arts. In the first section, I explain the idea of substantive arts and then put forward sociological, historical, thematic and metaphysical criteria for classifying the arts that I
David Alvarogonzàlez
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Blurring the Edges: Ricoeur and Rothko on Metaphorically Figuring the Non-Figural

Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, 2017
This essay examines Ricœur’s mimetic and transfigurative perspective on non-objective art and adopts it as an idiom for examining Mark Rothko’s artistic intention in the multiform canvases of his “classical” period from 1949 until his death in 1970 ...
B. Keith Putt
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Hedonism in Abstract Art: Minimalist digital abstract photography [PDF]

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2009
In this piece of writing the writer/artist puts forward the view that art can be understood and taken in as sometimes purely hedonistic. By drawing upon the theories pertaining to hedonism, he applies this view to minimalist digital abstract photography ...
Srdjan Jovanović
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