A Pattern Analysis Application: Time Series Traces of the Effect of Kamran Khavarani’s Paintings on Viewers’ Mood

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mood Uplifting Paintings in Hospitals

“…Mozayeni and Amirmostofian (2016) showed that viewers of Abstract Romanticism paintings, irrespective of their gender and age and their initial state of mood, reported an increase in positive mood. Mozayeni, et al (2017), conducted a pattern analysis of mood reports of individuals who visited three galleries, one of which was the Abstract Romanticism gallery (Khavarani's Gallery). Before and after moods were reported by viewers for each gallery they visited.…”

“…In addition, there was no discernible effect of order, gender, or age on mood scores. Based on previous research examining the uplifting power of the Abstract Romanticism (AR) genre of painting Mozayeni, et al, 2017), we considered their use in hospitals. In the present study, we conducted a Cost-Benefit Analysis to predict the potential benefits of using the Abstract Romanticism genre of painting to reduce the length of hospital stays and thus associated costs.…”

“…We based our estimate of benefit in terms of reduction in hospital stay, on the effect size of Abstract Romanticism paintings on mood uplift from research by Mozayeni and her colleagues Mozayeni and Amirmostofian, 2016;and Mozayeni, et al, 2017). We ran a Repeated Measures Multivariate Analysis of Variance on the raw data from Amirmostofian and Mozayeni (2016).…”

“…The Abstract Romanticism paintings of Kamran Khavarani became our focus because the late Professor Albert Boime (2008b), perhaps the foremost Social Art Historian of our time, wrote that Khavarani's work "…resurrects the possibility that art can change the world by reaching out to the heart and imagination of the spectators." In addition, Mozayeni and her colleagues Mozayeni, Heiner & Amirmostofian, 2017) found that viewing Khavarani's Abstract Romanticism paintings resulted in significant improvements in reported mood compared to viewing paintings of other artists. There is a growing awareness that visual elements of the patients' environment (like artwork on the wall, a window in the room) facilitate the healing process and are associated with reductions in hospital stay length (Eisen, Ulrich, Shepley, Varni, & Sherman, 2008;Hathorn & Nanda, 2008;Lankston, Cusack, Fremantle, & Isles, 2010;Sherman, Varni, Ulrich, & Malcarne, 2005;Sternberg, 2009;Ulrich, 2006;Ulrich, 2013;Ulrich, Bogren, Gardiner, & Lundin, 2018).…”