AI has captured the artworld, and, and, progressively, is reshaping the way humans interact
with various forms of media. Computer-generated art sells for millions at auctions; artists …

It is an open question whether preferences for visual art can be lawfully predicted from the
basic constituent elements of a visual image. Here, we developed and tested a …

Across cultures and throughout recorded history, humans have produced visual art. This
raises the question of why people report such an emotional response to artworks and find …

Through the manipulation of color and form, visual abstract art is often used to convey
feelings and emotions. Here, we explored how colors and lines are used to express basic …

The aim of this work is to provide researchers from the field of aesthetics with a guideline on
working with artworks as stimuli. Empirical aesthetics research is complicated by the …

In this article I will argue for the affective-motivation (background affective attitude or
orientation) hypothesis that incubates the aesthetic experience and sets the deep frame of …

Some people feel emotions when they look at abstract art. This article presents a
'simulation'theory that predicts which emotions they will experience, including those based …

Introduction While the fact that visual stimuli synthesized by Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
may evoke emotional reactions is documented, the precise mechanisms that connect the …

Dance is a multifaceted creative act that has been used to communicate emotions
throughout human evolution. Despite this history, there has been no empirical exploration of …

Understanding the complexities of how emotions could be implicated in the semantic
(subject-matter) and the syntactic level (form/style) in art might contribute to integrating …