A Sense of Spirituality in Art, from Quantative to Qualitative approach

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370073
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Religious studies
• Research Institution: Tohoku University of Art and Design
• Principal Investigator: KUBOTA Chikara 東北芸術工科大学, 教養部, 教授 (80192566)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): WATANABE Satoshi 秋田県立大学, 総合科学教育研究センター, 教授 (40240486)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: スピリチュアリティ / 芸術 / 質問紙調査 / 色イメージ / 色彩感性 / 家族関係 / 父母

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We carried out a survey of 1,272 art university students to explore the relationship between spirituality that they experience as artists, and their artistic creations. We designed a survey format about spirituality that included images of their parents and siblings. We asked the students to answer the　survey questions using colors that we provided which they thought corresponded to the image of any given family member. This way of answering according to color names is a unique method that we decided to try. For both male and female students the survey showed that the array of colors relating to the image of both father and mother are complementary color relationships. The survey also showed that the selection ratio of image colors of the father is inversely related to that of the mother.

Free Research Field

インド思想、宗教学