Tracking artistic transformations: comparing paintings and their source photographs

0506240 - PSÚ 2020 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Adámek, P. - Grygarová, D. - Lukavský, Jiří - Kesner, L.
Tracking artistic transformations: comparing paintings and their source photographs.
Československá psychologie. Roč. 63, č. 3 (2019), s. 337-353. ISSN 0009-062X. E-ISSN 1804-6436
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
Keywords : psychology of art * eye movements * photography * paintings * artist’s intention
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impact factor: 0.478, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access with time embargo

This eye-tracking study was designed to analyze the effect of artistic transformation of a photographic image to a painting on oculomotor behavior. The study employed unique set of stimuli, consisting of paintings and photographs used by authors of the paintings as direct source images. First, the differences in basic eye movement measurements and the explored area were
investigated. In paintings, viewers moved their eyes quicker, and viewing was more dispersive. Second, relationship between the basic eye movement measurements and stylistic features
(complexity, style expressivity and dynamism) as well as the top-down factor of expertise were analyzed. Furthermore, fixation maps of paintings versus photographs were compared and
significant shifts were identified. The difference in fixation maps can be interpreted as a behavioral index of artistic transformations, including artist’s intention (AI). In the light of the theoretical
background of AI that includes even motor acts, the idea of using oculomotor behavior as an index of viewer’s inference of AI was introduced.
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