Creative cognitive process in art appreciation and its enhancement

• Project/Area Number: 15K00213
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Kanazawa Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Tanaka Yoshifumi 金沢工業大学, 情報フロンティア学部, 教授 (90285073)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: 創造的思考 / 絵画鑑賞 / 制約緩和 / 芸術

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Beginners of art appreciation generally have “reality constraints” in that they show a strong tendency to insist on identifying depicted objects and their realistic expression in artwork. Relaxing the constraints might enhance creativity in art appreciation in art beginners.
We conducted an experiment in a laboratory and a field-experiment in an art gallery to examine the effects of reading commentaries on artworks to relax reality constraints. An analysis of the conversations of participants during appreciating artworks in the experiments suggested that the process of appreciating artworks involved an interaction between the information obtained by the artwork itself and the external knowledge provided through the commentaries. It is also suggested that taking longer time for appreciation enhanced the relaxation of the reality constraints in art novices.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 美術初心者は絵画から何を読み取るか？ー具象絵画鑑賞時の発話による探索的な検討 (2018)
  • Author(s): 田中吉史
  • Journal Title: 認知科学 Volume: 25 Pages: 26-49
  • NAID: 130007479788
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Presentation] 美術初心者における写実性制約が抽象絵画の鑑賞に与える影響 (2017)
  • Author(s): 田中吉史
  • Organizer: 日本認知心理学会第15 回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 慶應義塾大学
  • Year and Date: 2017-06-04
• [Presentation] 美術初心者における写実性制約が抽象絵画の鑑賞に与える影響 (2017)
  • Author(s): 田中 吉史
  • Organizer: 日本認知心理学会第15回大会
• [Presentation] Cognitive Constraints in the Appreciation of Abstract Paintings by Art Beginners (2017)
  • Author(s): Yoshifumi Tanaka
  • Organizer: The 11th International Conference of Cognitive Science
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 美術初心者は抽象絵画をどう鑑賞するのか？発話に基づくタイムコースと解説文の効果の検討 (2017)
  • Author(s): 田中 吉史
  • Organizer: 日本認知科学会第34回大会
• [Presentation] 絵画鑑賞はどのように進むのか？発話に基づくタイムコースと解説文の効果の検討 (2016)
  • Author(s): 田中吉史
  • Organizer: 日本認知科学会第33回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-17
• [Presentation] Cognitive constraints in art appreciation and the effect of reading commentaries on artwork (2016)
  • Author(s): Yoshifumi Tanaka
  • Organizer: International Conference of Psychology 2016
  • Place of Presentation: パシフィコ横浜、横浜市
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-24
  • Int'l Joint Research