Aesthetic Science of Color and Spatial Composition

色彩与空间构成的美学科学

• 批准号: 0745820
• 负责人: Stephen Palmer
• 金额: $ 30.7万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0745820&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Aesthetic; Science; Color; Spatial; Composition

The present research project aims to understand how people respond aesthetically to the spatial composition and color composition of simple, visually displayed images. Despite the importance of aesthetic evaluations in our everyday lives -- not only when we visit museums, but also when we buy clothes, choose movies, take vacations, decorate our homes, and landscape our yards -- surprisingly little is known scientifically about what color combinations and spatial arrangements people prefer. Most previous treatments have come from philosophers, artists, and art theorists, who take a prescriptive approach by stating what one should prefer aesthetically. In this project the principal investigator takes a scientific, descriptive approach by analyzing what people actually do prefer aesthetically and the variables that determine these aesthetic preferences. Early findings on spatial composition show, for example, that people prefer symmetrical views of an object (such as a front-view of a face) to be positioned at or near the center of the image, but asymmetrical views (such as a side-view of a face) to be positioned laterally off center so that it faces into the frame. Early findings on color composition show, for instance, that people generally prefer pairs of colors that contain similar (rather than contrasting) colors, but that a given color looks more aesthetically pleasing against a highly contrasting (rather than a similar) color. The proposed research project provides a promising new bridge between art and science. It defines an interdisciplinary research endeavor -- called aesthetic science -- that uses well-defined behavioral methods to understand an aesthetic dimension of human experience that is distinct from the well-studied cognitive (knowledge-based) aspects and emotional (feeling-based) aspects of experience. It also defines new research methods aimed at understanding different patterns of aesthetic preference between individuals across different aesthetic domains. Do people who prefer unusual, highly contrasting color combinations, for example, also prefer unexpected spatial compositions? Given the pioneering nature of the proposed research on an under-studied topic, all manner of new discoveries are possible, both within the field of aesthetic science and linking it with knowledge in the existing fields of emotion and cognitive science.

本研究旨在了解人们如何对简单的视觉显示图像的空间组成和颜色组成做出审美反应。 尽管审美评价在我们的日常生活中很重要--不仅在我们参观博物馆时，而且在我们买衣服、选择电影、度假、装饰房屋和美化庭院时--但令人惊讶的是，人们对颜色组合和空间安排的科学了解甚少。大多数以前的治疗来自哲学家，艺术家和艺术理论家，他们采取了一种规定性的方法，通过陈述一个人应该在美学上更喜欢什么。在这个项目中，主要研究者采取了一种科学的描述性方法，分析人们实际上在审美上喜欢什么，以及决定这些审美偏好的变量。 例如，关于空间构图的早期发现表明，人们更喜欢将物体的对称视图（如人脸的正视图）放置在图像的中心或附近，而不对称视图（如人脸的侧视图）则放置在横向偏离中心的位置，以便它面向框架。 例如，关于色彩构成的早期发现表明，人们通常更喜欢包含相似（而不是对比）颜色的颜色对，但是一种给定的颜色看起来比高度对比（而不是相似）的颜色更美观。拟议中的研究项目为艺术和科学之间架起了一座充满希望的新桥梁。它定义了一个跨学科的研究努力-所谓的审美科学-使用定义明确的行为方法来理解人类经验的审美维度，这是不同于研究充分的认知（基于知识）方面和情感（基于感觉）方面的经验。 它还定义了新的研究方法，旨在了解不同审美领域的个人之间的审美偏好的不同模式。 例如，喜欢不寻常的、高度对比的颜色组合的人是否也喜欢意想不到的空间构图？ 鉴于对一个未充分研究的主题进行拟议研究的开创性性质，所有新发现都是可能的，无论是在美学科学领域，还是将其与情感和认知科学现有领域的知识联系起来。