Perceptual Balance, Stability, and Aesthetic Appreciation: Their Relations Depend on the Picture Type. (June 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Perceptual Balance, Stability, and Aesthetic Appreciation: Their Relations Depend on the Picture Type. (June 2019)
- Main Title:
- Perceptual Balance, Stability, and Aesthetic Appreciation: Their Relations Depend on the Picture Type
- Authors:
- Hübner, Ronald
Fillinger, Martin G. - Abstract:
- It is widely assumed that the aesthetic appreciation of a picture depends, among others, on how well the picture's composition is perceptually balanced, where "perceptual balance" is often defined analogous to mechanics. To what extent this metaphor holds for different picture types, however, is still open. Therefore, in this study, we examined the relationship between balance, liking, and some objective measures with pictures from an aesthetic sensitivity test. These stimuli could be divided into single-element, multiple-element, and dynamic-pattern pictures. The results show that "balance" is interpreted differently, depending on the stimulus type. Whereas "mechanical" balance was applied to assess single-element pictures, the balance of multiple-element and dynamic-pattern pictures was rated more in the sense of gravitational stability. Only for the multiple-element stimuli, there was a positive relation between balance/stability and liking. Together, our findings show that there are different types of balance, and that their relation with liking depends on the picture type.
- Is Part Of:
- I-Perception. Volume 10:Number 3(2019)
- Journal:
- I-Perception
- Issue:
- Volume 10:Number 3(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 10, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0010-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06
- Subjects:
- aesthetics -- preference -- perceptual balance -- complexity -- perceptual stability
Perception -- Periodicals
Visual perception -- Periodicals
Perception
Perception
Electronic journals
Periodical
Fulltext
Internet Resources
Periodicals
Periodicals
153.7 - Journal URLs:
- http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/51794 ↗
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1906/ ↗
http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?db=a9h&jid=%22FSY0%22&scope=site ↗
http://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ipe?expanded=2010 ↗
http://i-perception.perceptionweb.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/2041669519856040 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2041-6695
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 11441.xml