Interaction between creation and appreciation: How linguistic art creation impacts the aesthetic evaluation of haiku poetry and ink paintings

Haiku poetry, a short poem with clear form, can potentially elucidate many unknown aspects of verbal art. Previous studies on haiku appreciation reported emotional and cognitive effects on aesthetic evaluation. Since both change during art appreciation, clarifying the processes of these change during haiku evaluation is beneficial. This study examined the temporal effects of emotional and cognitive changes on aesthetic evaluation from multiple perspectives and measured the ratings of each section of a haiku, continuous emotional reports, and physiological changes in pupil diameter. First, 112 participants rated a haiku at three time-points on various items, such as beauty, valence, and ambiguity. Subsequently, they rated the same haiku continuously for 20 seconds via a joystick for valence and arousal, during which their pupil diameter was measured. Emotional changes, such as increased positive emotions, arousal, and emotional ambiguity, and cognitive changes, such as decreased cognitive ambiguity, affected the haiku’s aesthetic evaluation. Regarding continuous emotion reports, positive and negative emotions gradually increased for positive and negative haikus, respectively, while arousal gradually increased for both. Additionally, increase in pupil diameter also explained the beauty. This study advances our understanding of verbal arts by empirically exploring conscious and unconscious emotional and cognitive responses to haikus.

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Bridging Cultural Perspectives: Developing a Sustainable Framework for the Comparative Aesthetic Evaluation of Eastern and Western Art

Wang,

Jiang,

Ning

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Sustainability in art is crucial for fostering intercultural understanding and preserving cultural heritage, which is essential to promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In previous research on Western and Chinese art, studies typically focused on individual artists and summarized their aesthetic values, often suffering from a lack of comparative analysis, a unidimensional sensory perspective, and a deficiency in comprehensive aesthetic evaluation standards. Consequently, this study selected representative watercolor works from five master artists in Western and Chinese art history as an example, constructing a comprehensive aesthetic evaluation system focusing on composition, color, themes, and techniques. Beginning with the influence of aesthetic and non-aesthetic perspectives by natural experimental method, the research employs correlation analysis and structural equation modeling to analyze the functional relationships between evaluative factors, perspective forces, and the overall aesthetic appeal of the paintings. Furthermore, the study reveals the distinctions between Eastern and Western paintings through multi-group analysis. Key findings include the following: Evaluation factors have varying effects on the influence of aesthetic and non-aesthetic perspectives. All factors, except conceptual expression (X12), brushwork expressiveness (X14), and watercolor language (X16), positively impact the overall aesthetic appeal. In mediation effects, X16 positively mediates between the influence of aesthetic perspectives and the overall aesthetic appeal. Factors such as warm–cool relationship (X8), X12, emotional atmosphere (X11), X14, and X16 positively or negatively affect the relationship between non-aesthetic perspectives and the overall aesthetic appeal. Multi-group analysis reveals significant differences in the evaluation factors and mediation effects that influence the overall aesthetic appeal. This study demonstrates the relationship between evaluation factors from different perspectives and aesthetics, providing valuable insights into evaluating Eastern and Western art. This evaluation system is applicable to academic research and practice in cultural heritage preservation and evaluation and art education, facilitating a deeper understanding of artistic values and promoting cross-cultural exchanges.

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Interaction between creation and appreciation: How linguistic art creation impacts the aesthetic evaluation of haiku poetry and ink paintings

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Comparison of ambiguity and aesthetic impressions in haiku poetry between experts and novices

Comparison of ambiguity and aesthetic impressions in haiku poetry between experts and novices

Effects of emotional and cognitive changes on aesthetic evaluation of poetry based on subjective and physiological continuous responses with pupil diameter measurement

Bridging Cultural Perspectives: Developing a Sustainable Framework for the Comparative Aesthetic Evaluation of Eastern and Western Art

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