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Do You See What I See? An Investigation Of The Aesthetic Experience In The Laboratory And Museum, Eva Specker, Pablo Tinio, Michiel Van Elk
Do You See What I See? An Investigation Of The Aesthetic Experience In The Laboratory And Museum, Eva Specker, Pablo Tinio, Michiel Van Elk
Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works
Two studies examined people's aesthetic experiences of art in the laboratory and the museum. The theoretical framework guiding the research was based on the Mirror Model of Art (Tinio, 2013), which proposes that the process of artistic creation and artistic reception mirror each other. Study 1 used a think-aloud protocol to assess people's natural and spontaneous reactions while looking at art. Study 2 examined whether presenting information about an artwork in a certain order (lower-order to higherorder information or higher-order to lower-order information) enhances aspects of the aesthetic experience and retention of information about art. Studies 1 and 2 were …