Beauty in the biased eye of the beholder

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When we pass through an art gallery, what determines our idea of beauty? A University of Sydney study of how people rate the aesthetics of each artwork shows part of our aesthetic assessment is due to the painting you saw a few moments before. The research, led by Ph.D. student Ms Sujin Kim in the School of Psychology, is published […]

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Art is in the eye of the beholder

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A researcher from James Cook University in Australia has found that a person’s mental state affects how they look at art. JCU psychology lecturer Nicole Thomas said the same piece of artwork can attract admiration or rejection from different people. “One intuitive explanation is that personality and the way in which we visually examine artwork contributes to our preferences for […]

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