Experimental Aesthetics Group, Institute of Anatomy I.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2021 Apr;47(4):545-564. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000771.
Color has been a defining feature of paintings throughout art history. Despite the great diversity in the use of color between epochs, there are some surprisingly stable and unifying features in chromatic properties across visual artworks. For example, artists' palettes seem to be biased toward the yellow-red range of the spectrum. Here, we assess the impact of a holistic color manipulation (i.e., rotating the color gamut) on aesthetic liking and perceived colorfulness of abstract paintings. We presented 6 versions each of 100 abstract artworks that differed only in the rotational degree of their color gamut within the space. Results indicated a very stable preference for the original color compositions-both on a participant level and on an item level. Furthermore, participants perceived original color compositions as more colorful than rotated versions. This effect remained robust even when the exact number of different colors-among other chromatic features-was taken into account in covariate analyses. Thus, it seems that original color compositions are inherently special. Specifically, it seems that the aesthetic appeal of original artworks arises from nontrivial color features, which are characterized by their distribution within the visible spectrum. We assume that the rotation manipulation may change the perception of some colors more strongly than others due to differences in sensitivity of our visual system to these hues. We discuss these findings with respect to category-specific color perception, which may be a potential contender for a neurobiological foundation of the observed effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
颜色一直是艺术史中绘画的一个重要特征。尽管不同时代在色彩运用上存在着巨大的差异，但在视觉艺术作品的色彩属性中，仍存在一些令人惊讶的稳定且统一的特征。例如，艺术家的调色板似乎偏向于光谱的黄-红范围。在这里，我们评估了整体色彩处理（即旋转色域）对抽象画的审美喜好和感知色彩的影响。我们展示了 100 件抽象艺术作品的每个作品的 6 个版本，这些作品在色域的旋转程度上仅存在差异。结果表明，对原始色彩组合的偏好非常稳定——无论是在参与者层面还是在项目层面都是如此。此外，与旋转版本相比，参与者认为原始色彩组合更具色彩感。即使在协变量分析中考虑了不同颜色的准确数量（以及其他颜色特征），这种效果仍然很稳健。因此，原始色彩组合似乎具有内在的特殊性。具体来说，原始艺术作品的审美吸引力似乎源于非平凡的颜色特征，这些特征的特点是它们在可见光谱中的分布。我们假设，由于我们的视觉系统对这些色调的敏感性存在差异，旋转处理可能会使某些颜色的感知发生更大的变化。我们将这些发现与特定于类别的颜色感知进行了讨论，这可能是观察到的效应的神经生物学基础的潜在竞争者。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。
