The presence of pictures that people recognize as great beyond the borders of cultural differences over 100 years could suggest that such paintings would have certain aesthetic elements in common; and if people are able to recognize them through a shared sense of beauty; it might be able to study what kinds of properties influence people’s evaluation of paintings. This paper investigates influences of motif compositions on impressions of pictures. In the first experiment; participants were asked to answer their impressions of the printings using two kinds of rating scales: information rate scale and semantic differential scale; where “symmetry”; “complexity” and “order” are defined as the elements of “beauty”. Results showed that these three perceptual features influence strongly on people’s impressions. However; this experiment poses some questions. Do participants sense the existence of the golden ratio from motif composition? In recognizing that the ratio had been broken; did their impressions change as a result? Do their impressions change according to degrees of symmetries of motif; no matter if the golden ratio exists? To find answers to these questions; we conduct the second experiment to analyze the relationship between motif compositions and gaze movements detected by an eye-tracking system.
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