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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Luca Francesco Ticini, Laura eRachman, Jerome ePelletier, Stephanie eDubal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Art
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00391/full