Self-Assessment Indicators of Impression from Realistic and Abstract Art Painting as Predictors of Verbal and Imaginative Creativity
摘要
The search for patterns of perception and understanding of art is the research subject in many scientific fields, including psychology and neurophysiology. In this paper, the analysis of the ratio of indicators of understanding and self-assessment of the emotional impression during the perception of specially selected paintings of fine art representing realism and abstractionism was carried out in comparison with indicators of originality when testing verbal and non-verbal creativity. The study involved 115 university students aged 17–20 (60 men and 55 women). A computerized program for presenting stimulus pictures was used for a quantitative assessment of the aesthetic impression and decision time. A significantly better understanding of the content of paintings of a realistic style has been established, which was accompanied by positive emotions and longer consideration in comparison with abstractionism (4.0 and 3.6 s, respectively). According to the results of regression analysis, the predictors of verbal originality are the time of making a decision on the impression created when viewing realism, together with the indicator of conceptual thinking (according to the subtest of the verbal component of intelligence, IQ4), and figurative is the time of impression assessing and understanding of abstract paintings. Consequently, the discovered patterns indicate not only the relationship between self-assessment of aesthetic impression and indicators of creative abilities, but also to different mechanisms of their organization: with a relatively large contribution of conceptual thinking to verbal creativity and imagination to figurative.