When the image loses its shape: a comparative study of college students' understanding pathways of abstract and figurative art [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study examines path differences in abstract and figurative art comprehension between art and non-art majors among college students. Employing a phased mixed-methods approach, the qualitative phase utilized semi-structured interviews and thematic ...
Shaowen Wang +3 more
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The aesthetic experience of the sublime for a group of Highly Sensitive Persons: Maselli's figurative style vs. Rothko's abstract expressionism [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyContemporary art museums have become important learning environments to promote visitor aesthetic education. Each piece of art constantly sends different messages to the viewer and creates a person-art connection that can provide significant experiences.
Fernando Echarri +3 more
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An objective evaluation of the beholder’s response to abstract and figurative art based on construal level theory [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Eric Kandel +2 more
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Can music be figurative? Exploring the possibility of crossmodal similarities between music and visual arts [PDF]
Psihologija, 2017 According to both experimental research and common sense, classical music is a better fit for figurative art than jazz. We hypothesize that similar fits may reflect underlying crossmodal structural similarities between music and painting genres.
Actis-Grosso Rossana +5 more
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Mitos Kecantikan Perempuan dalam Karya Seni Tiga Dimensi
Brikolase, 2023 The creation of this Tugas Akhir Course (Final Project) departs from the writer's anxiety about people's response to women who are considered not beautiful. This is one of the impacts of beauty myths that are felt by women.
Laras Shinta Prasetya +1 more
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To study the objective and figurative representation of the heavenly contexts in Iranian Islamic art [PDF]
نگره, 2017 Iranian religious art has avoided any figurative representation following the expression of the exalted order. The religious topics and otherworldly affairs were restricted due to the necessity of the figurative representations and narrative atmosphere ...
Najibeh Rahmani +2 more
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A Study on the Figurative Sculptures from the Islamic Revolution to the End of the Iran-Iraq War with Regard to the Modernism [PDF]
نگره, 2016 The main stream art in Iran following the revolution till the end of the Iran-Iraq war is religious in nature and committed to the values of the Islamic revolution. Despite the ignorance or disapproval towards the pre-revolutionary artistic achievements,
mina talaei, fahimeh daneshghar
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Land, 2023 As urbanization quickens, the role of public art in urban landscape design gains prominence. Nevertheless, how stylistic characteristics of landscape public art affect aesthetic preferences remains insufficiently discussed, particularly with objective ...
Yue Cheng +5 more
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Figurative Structuring Systems in the Optical Art
الاكاديمي, 2016 Through the history of art movements, abstraction has been rotating between appearance and disappearance, mounting and stillness while its performances differed between reduction and simplification on the one hand and between the use of chromatographic ...
nada aide yousif
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Human Figure Representation in the Works of Contemporary Afghan Painters [PDF]
هنرهای زیبا. هنرهای تجسمیThis study investigates the representation of the human figure in the works of contemporary Afghan painters, tracing its evolution from early realism to modern and neo-traditional approaches.
Said Navidulhaq Fazli, Mostafa Goudarzi
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