The Influences of Aesthetic Life Experience and Expertise on Aesthetic Judgement and Emotion in Mundane Arts

Aesthetics has been regarded as a fundamental personal value. Most of the previous studies regarding aesthetic experience (AE) have focused on fine arts, rather than the everyday arts that are closely related to our everyday life. This study analysed the relationships among aesthetic life experience...

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Published inThe international journal of art & design education Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 492 - 507
Main Authors Yeh, Yu‐chu, Peng, Yueh‐Yin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Wiley-Blackwell 01.05.2019
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
aesthetic experience
aesthetic judgement
Aesthetics
College Students
designed product
emotion
Emotional Response
Emotions
Experience
Expertise
life experience
Product design
Psychological Patterns
Teaching methods
Value Judgment
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Summary:Aesthetics has been regarded as a fundamental personal value. Most of the previous studies regarding aesthetic experience (AE) have focused on fine arts, rather than the everyday arts that are closely related to our everyday life. This study analysed the relationships among aesthetic life experience, expertise and different types of AE outcomes (aesthetic judgement and emotion) inspired by everyday designed products. The participants in this study were 115 college students, and an E‐prime program that included 120 pictures of designed products were employed to measure aesthetic judgement (beautiful, ordinary, or ugly) and aesthetic emotion (fearful, disgusting, neutral, or pleasure). The results revealed three major phenomena. (1) Two major types of AE outcomes are perceiving beauty with positive emotion and perceiving ugliness with negative emotion. (2) Although there are similar patterns for how aesthetic life experience and expertise influence personal tastes regarding beauty and aesthetic emotion, abundant expertise in designed products contributes more in differentiating emotion when viewing the beautiful designed products. (3) The consensus of the evaluation of ugliness is stronger than when evaluating beauty. In addition, a model of AE with regard to everyday designed products was proposed. The findings of this study shed light on the cultivation of aesthetic abilities and product design that could be utilised in education.
ISSN:1476-8062
1476-8070
DOI:10.1111/jade.12213