THE IMPACT OF LIGHTING SOURCE AND CALLIGRAPHY FONTS ON THE DEGREE OF PREFERENCE OF CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY WORKS

Abstract

Chinese calligraphy is one of traditional arts popular in China as well as many Asia countries. And calligraphy works are usually exhibited in museums and galleries, where lighting conditions play important role. In this paper, a lighting environment display space had been built to simulate the exhibition hall. Then observers were invited to do psychophysical experiments and their subjective evaluations for four fonts of calligraphy works in different lighting environments were obtained. These data were used to analyse the visual impact of the calligraphic fonts and illumination sources on the visitors in the calligraphy exhibition. The results are reference for museums and galleries lighting.