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Beyond The Lab: An Examination Of Key Factors Influencing Interaction With ‘Real’ And Museum-Based Art, Matthew Pelowski, M. Forster, Pablo Tinio, Maria Scholl, Helmut Leder

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

The authors present a comprehensive review and theoretical discussion of factors that could influence our interaction with museum-based art. Art is an important stimulus that reveals core insights about human behavior and thought. Art perception is in fact often considered one of the few uniquely human phenomena whereby we process multiple types of information, experience myriad emotions, make evaluations, and where these elements not only occur but dynamically combine. Art viewing often occurs in museums, which-in conjunction with "real" artworks-may contribute greatly to experience. However, to date, psychological aesthetics studies have only begun to consider in-museum examinations, focusing instead on …