Aesthetic Consistencies (11-08-23)
Mehl, Gugliano, and Belfi investigated visual and acoustic aesthetics via an online study. They report that “To better understand how aesthetic experiences may be similar (or different) across modalities, we sought to directly compare the features that contribute to aesthetic judgments of three categories of art: poetry, music, and paintings. Online participants either rated poems . . . musical excerpts . . . or images of paintings . . . on four variables: vividness of evoked imagery, emotional arousal, emotional valence [positive or negative], and aesthetic appeal. . . .