Looking at a Painting: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

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Art & Perception Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI:10.1163/22134913-bja10052

Rachel A. Starr, Jonathan A. Smith

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Abstract

Abstract This research explores the experience of looking at art, specifically that of viewing a single painting. Five participants each selected a previously unseen painting from a selection provided and were interviewed about their experiences as they viewed it. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to explore the idiographic detail of the resulting interviews. Personal Experiential Themes (PETs) were developed independently for each participant and these individual cases were subsequently compared to form a structure of Group Experiential Themes (GETs). Three GETs, Elements of Engagement, Deeper Exploration and Vulnerability and Intimacy resulted. These themes represented in turn, early interactions, subsequent more considered imaginative and interpretative engagements, and the feelings evoked by encountering emotive content or questioning the voracity of one’s reactions. The first GET is reported in detail here and recounts viewers’ initial engagements with their chosen painting such as their experiences of first noticing’s, their curiosities, and the formation of early impressions. The viewers’ accounts of engagement involved senses of dynamism and sometimes physical force shaping the relationship between themselves and the painting. Three subthemes, Groping Out, Attracting Attention and Drawing In, detail the different experiential qualities of these engagements.

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观看一幅画:解释性现象学分析

本研究探讨了观看艺术的体验，特别是观看一幅画的体验。五名参与者每人从提供的选择中选择一幅以前从未见过的画，并就他们观看这幅画时的经历接受采访。解释性现象学分析(IPA)被用于探究访谈结果的具体细节。个人体验主题(pet)是为每个参与者独立开发的，然后将这些个体案例进行比较，形成群体体验主题(GETs)结构。三个get，参与的要素，更深层次的探索，脆弱和亲密的结果。这些主题依次代表了早期的互动，随后更有想象力和解释性的参与，以及通过遇到情感内容或质疑一个人的反应的贪婪而引起的感受。这里详细报道了第一次GET，并叙述了观众最初与他们选择的画作的接触，如他们第一次注意到的经历，他们的好奇心，以及早期印象的形成。观众对参与的描述涉及到活力感，有时还涉及到塑造自己与画作之间关系的物理力量。三个副主题，摸索，吸引注意和吸引进来，详细说明了这些活动的不同体验品质。

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期刊介绍： The main objective of Art & Perception is to provide a high-quality platform to publish new artwork and research in the multi-disciplinary emerging bridge between art and perception. As such it aims to become the top venue to explore the links between the science of perception and the arts, and to bring together artists, researchers, scholars and students in a unified community that can cooperate, discuss and develop new scientific perspectives in this complex and intriguing new field. The purpose is not to minimize or erase the differences between the arts and sciences, which are grounded in venerable histories that are in many ways necessarily distinct. Rather, the ambition of the journal is to combine the differing methods and insights of artists and scientists in order to expand our knowledge of art and perceptual experience in a way that neither could do alone. Art & Perception will serve those across several areas of science studying the way works of art and design affect us perceptually, cognitively, or physiologically. The editors are also keen to receive submissions from practicing artists, and those in related fields of history and theory, which offer an artistic perspective on perception.