Enhancing aesthetic appreciation by priming canvases with actions that match the artist's painting style

The creation of an artwork requires motor activity. To what extent is art appreciation divorced from that activity and to what extent is it linked to it? That is the question which we set out to answer. We presented participants with pointillist-style paintings featuring discernible brushstrokes and...

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Main Authors: Ticini, Luca F., Rachman, Laura, Pelletier, Jerome, Dubal, Stephanie
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4043134/