著者

田中 吉史 松本 彩季

出版者

日本認知科学会

雑誌

認知科学 (ISSN:13417924)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.1, pp.130-151, 2013-03-01 (Released:2014-11-20)

参考文献数

33

被引用文献数

2

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It is known that naïve viewers have “reality constraints” in art appreciation, namely strong tendency to insist on identifying depicted object and its realistic expression in the artwork. Relaxing the reality constraints might help the naïve viewer to appreciate artworks in more creative way. In this paper we investigated whether reading com-mentary on artwork helps appreciation and what kind of commentary is more effective. Fifty college students without particular art education participated in an experiment. The participants were assigned to one of four conditions. The experiment consisted of two phases: preliminary appreciation phase and main appreciation phase. In the pre-liminary appreciation phase, three groups of participants were presented paintings by Renoir, Matisse and Klee, and made free descriptions on their thoughts on each paint-ing. Along with each of painting, a commentary on objects depicted in the painting was provided to participants in object commentary condition, a commentary on formal and technical aspects of the painting was provided to formal commentary condition, and no commentary was provided no commentary condition. No preliminary appreciation condition skipped the preliminary appreciation phase. After the preliminary apprecia-tion phase, all the participants were presented two paintings by Gogh and Kandinsky without any commentary and made free description. Analysis of free description in main appreciation phase showed that (1) reading commentary activated verbalization during the appreciation, (2) the participants generally focused on what was depicted in the painting, (3) reading commentary on technical aspects was more effective for relaxing reality constraints and deepening the experience of paintings.