Arts,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
13(3), P. 109 - 109
Published: June 19, 2024
The
present
research
analyses
the
role
of
Egyptian
artist
within
context
New
Kingdom
art,
paying
attention
to
appearance
new
details
in
Theban
tomb
chapels
that
reflect
originality
their
creators.
On
one
hand,
visibility
case
studies
investigated
is
explored,
looking
for
a
possible
explanation
as
function
scenes
(such
‘visual
hooks’)
and
offering
brief
experimental
approach.
Tomb
owners
benefitted
from
expertise
artists
who
helped
reaffirm
status
perpetuate
funerary
cults.
other
iconography
can
include
examples
innate
creativity
artists,
including
ancient
ones.
presence
such
innovative
reflects
undeniable
sought
stimulating
which
were
sometimes
emulated
by
contemporaries
later
workmates.
Significantly,
some
these
reveal
unusual
poses
daily-life
character,
probably
related
individuality
spirit.
In
words,
creative
impulse
what
leads
innovate.
this
sense,
must
be
understood
dynamic
visual
arts
determines
constant
evolution
styles.
Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Dec. 1, 2024
Beauty
judgments
are
common
in
daily
life,
but
rarely
studied
cognitive
neuroscience.
Here,
three
studies,
we
searched
for
the
neural
mechanisms
of
musical
beauty
using
a
naturalistic
free-listening
paradigm
applied
to
behavioral
and
neuroimaging
recordings
validated
by
experts'
judgments.
In
Study
1,
30
adults
continuously
rated
perceived
pieces
motion
sensor.
This
served
identify
passages
that
were
inter-subjectively
judged
as
more
or
less
beautiful
('beautiful'
vs.
'not-beautiful'
passages).
For
identifying
consistent
determinants
perception
beauty,
utilized
these
ratings
2,
where
36
recorded
with
functional
magnetic
resonance
imaging
(fMRI)
while
they
listened
attentively
same
1.
3,
musicological
features
characterizing
not-beautiful
Studies
1-2,
collected
post-hoc
questionnaires
from
12
music-composition
experts.
Results
2
evidenced
focal
activity
orbitofrontal
cortex
when
listening
whereas
associated
bilateral
supratemporal
activity.
Effective
connectivity
analysis
discovered
inhibition
auditory
activation
communication
right
intrinsic
cortices
decreased
coupling
passages.
Experts'
indicated
melodic,
calm,
sad,
slow,
tonal,
traditional,
simple
than
ones
negatively.
sum,
identified
psychological
underpinnings
irrespectively
individual
taste
biography.
Research Square (Research Square),
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 27, 2024
Abstract
Everyday
objects
offer
invitations
to
act
(affordances).
Most
empirical
work
on
affordances
has
focused
the
shape
and
size
of
objects,
neglecting
analysis
other
visual
properties,
such
as
texture,
investigated
instead
by
designers.
Texture
perception
depends
type
material,
which
changes
familiarity,
aesthetics,
action(s)
an
object
offers.
Here,
we
influence
aesthetics
material
sustainability
affordance
activation.
We
thus
employed
in
materials.
re-adapted
a
well-established
paradigm
literature,
showing
with
same
shape,
made
from
sustainable
non-sustainable
materials
(namely,
plastic
vs.
wood)
varying
degrees
familiarity
pleasantness.
The
were
positioned
at
near
or
far
distance,
followed
different
kinds
verbs
(observation,
manipulation,
function,
interaction).
Participants
also
completed
Pro-Environmental
Behaviors
Scale
(PEBS)
rated
according
seven
dimensions:
pleasantness,
sustainability,
hardness,
heaviness,
ownership,
sociality.
Results
showed
greater
facilitation
compared
wooden
ones
when
presented
space
function
verbs.
However,
found
main
effect
response
times
(RTs)
shorter
for
especially
interaction
no
correlation
between
RTs
PEBS,
though
several
significant
interactions
occurred,
argue
that
component
affected
within
specific
interplay
location
linguistic
elaboration,
hypothesizing
beauty
might
have
transversely
modulated
responses.
Frontiers in Psychology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
15
Published: April 25, 2024
Generally,
beauty
has
been
regarded
as
an
outward
expression
of
elegance
and
harmony,
providing
visual
pleasure
evoking
a
sense
aesthetic
enjoyment.
However,
in
recent
years,
phenomenon
called
“ugly-cute”
emerged,
challenging
the
conventional
standards
by
embracing
form
“ugliness”
to
enhance
its
appeal.
The
reasons
mechanisms
behind
this
remain
largely
unexplored
so
far.
This
study
aims
investigate
role
emotions,
such
pleasure,
humor,
surprise,
relationship
between
ugly-cute
characteristics
attractiveness.
findings
reveal
that
general
directly
generates
attractiveness
eliciting
pleasurable
whereas
memes
achieve
inducing
emotions
through
mediation
humor.
Furthermore,
while
both
“ugly”
evoke
elicited
is
accompanied
humorous
response,
thereby
enhancing
their
attractiveness,
fail
humor
lack
Finally,
we
discuss
potential
implications
practical
value
current
research.
Arts,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
13(3), P. 109 - 109
Published: June 19, 2024
The
present
research
analyses
the
role
of
Egyptian
artist
within
context
New
Kingdom
art,
paying
attention
to
appearance
new
details
in
Theban
tomb
chapels
that
reflect
originality
their
creators.
On
one
hand,
visibility
case
studies
investigated
is
explored,
looking
for
a
possible
explanation
as
function
scenes
(such
‘visual
hooks’)
and
offering
brief
experimental
approach.
Tomb
owners
benefitted
from
expertise
artists
who
helped
reaffirm
status
perpetuate
funerary
cults.
other
iconography
can
include
examples
innate
creativity
artists,
including
ancient
ones.
presence
such
innovative
reflects
undeniable
sought
stimulating
which
were
sometimes
emulated
by
contemporaries
later
workmates.
Significantly,
some
these
reveal
unusual
poses
daily-life
character,
probably
related
individuality
spirit.
In
words,
creative
impulse
what
leads
innovate.
this
sense,
must
be
understood
dynamic
visual
arts
determines
constant
evolution
styles.
