He Mingcheng, He Xianyou, Zheng Zixin, Deng Jiamin, Wu Chenjing
Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China.
School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Psych J. 2022 Oct;11(5):645-655. doi: 10.1002/pchj.488. Epub 2021 Nov 14.
The creation of artwork requires motor activity. However, few empirical studies have directly explored the relationship between the experience of an artist's action and aesthetic experience. This study aimed to examine the effect of observing and imagery of the artist's action on the participants' aesthetic preferences. In Experiment 1 and 2, we took hard-pen and brush-pen Chinese calligraphy images as the stimulus, respectively, to explore the influence of action observation on the aesthetic preference by manipulating the artists' actions. The results of both Experiment 1 and 2 show that when participants observed the artists' actions, they tended to report a higher preference for calligraphy images compared with the control condition. In Experiments 3 and 4, we used instructions to manipulate the motor imagery tasks and investigated the effect of imaging the artist's action on the participants' aesthetic preferences. The results showed that both kinesthetic imagery and visual imagery increased the participants' preference. In general, our study shows that both action observation and motor imagery contribute to participants' aesthetic preferences. The results are discussed in terms of how artists' actions possibly influence the aesthetic preference of Chinese calligraphy.
艺术作品的创作需要运动活动。然而，很少有实证研究直接探讨艺术家动作体验与审美体验之间的关系。本研究旨在考察观察艺术家动作和对艺术家动作进行意象化对参与者审美偏好的影响。在实验1和实验2中，我们分别以硬笔和毛笔书法图像作为刺激物，通过操纵艺术家的动作来探究动作观察对审美偏好的影响。实验1和实验2的结果均表明，与控制条件相比，当参与者观察艺术家的动作时，他们往往对书法图像表现出更高的偏好。在实验3和实验4中，我们使用指导语来操纵运动意象任务，并研究对艺术家动作进行意象化对参与者审美偏好的影响。结果表明，动觉意象和视觉意象都增加了参与者的偏好。总体而言，我们的研究表明，动作观察和运动意象都有助于参与者的审美偏好。我们将根据艺术家的动作如何可能影响中国书法的审美偏好来讨论这些结果。
