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2 kwi 2019 · Art is just something we cannot help but do. While we may not need art to survive, our lives would be entirely different without it. The arts are a way of making sense of and understanding ourselves and others, a form of meaning-making just as important as are the sciences.
The psychology of art is the scientific study of cognitive and emotional processes precipitated by the sensory perception of aesthetic artefacts, such as viewing a painting or touching a sculpture. It is an emerging multidisciplinary field of inquiry, closely related to the psychology of aesthetics, including neuroaesthetics. [1][2]
3 kwi 2019 · Empirical studies suggest that art improves health and well-being among individuals. However, how aesthetic appreciation affects our cognitive and emotional states to promote physical and psychological well-being is still unclear.
30 mar 2017 · The psychology of art and aesthetics is the study of the perception and experience of the visual arts, music, film, performances, literature, design, and the environment. Art is a human phenomenon, and therefore aesthetics is fundamentally a psychological process.
23 kwi 2022 · This chapter presents an introductory overview on the psychology of art, a field of expertise almost as old as Psychology itself. The first theoretical section outlines classic contributions for the area, like psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, Gestalt theory,...
Ellen Winner, PhD, of Boston College, talks about how psychology can help answer the question “What is art?” why even non-experts can tell the difference between a child’s painting and an abstract masterpiece, why art forgeries bother us so much, the purpose of arts education, and more.
28 wrz 2022 · The study of the psychology of art is divided into two main clusters of problems: the first covers a broad range of internal, subjective processes (including hallucinations), and the second—those collective processes of thought and apprehension that we can observe, perceive, analyze, and empirically describe.
