Open AccessJudgement of abstract paintings
Author(s) -
Sandra Dakulovic,
Slobodan Marković
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
psihologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1451-9283
pISSN - 0048-5705
DOI - 10.2298/psi0601021d
Subject(s) - judgement , similarity (geometry) , dimension (graph theory) , painting , multidimensional scaling , psychology , space (punctuation) , scale (ratio) , mathematics , statistics , pure mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , art history , art , epistemology , philosophy , image (mathematics) , geography , linguistics , cartography
In two experiments the judgement of twenty one abstract paintings was investigated. In Experiment 1, subjects were asked to make similarity judgements of 210 pairs of paintings on a 7 step bipolar scale (similar-dissimilar). The Multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) method was used for data analysis. The distribution of paintings within MDS 2-D space suggested two grouping criteria: colorfullness (e.g. from Klee to Kline) and geometrization (e.g. from Vasarely to Kandinsky). In Experiment 2, subjects were asked to judge the same paintings on three factors of the instrument SDF 9 (Marković et al., 2002b): Evaluation, Arousal and Regularity. The purpose of this experiment was to specify the subjective criteria on which the (dis)similarity judgements were based. In the regression analysis the three factors of SDF 9 were defined as predictors, whereas the x and y coordinates of MDS 2-D space were defined as dependent variables. The results have shown that the dimension x was reducible to the Evaluation factor, and dimension y is reducible to the Regularity factor