Art Trained and Non-Art Trained Subjects' Classifications and Evaluations of Visual Structure in Nonobjective Art

The purpose of this research was to ascertain any impact of training in the visual arts on subjects' perceptions of visual structure as a stylistic attribute among various forms of nonobjective paintings. The population of subjects was evenly divided between graduate students majoring in art education and undergraduate elementary education majors. The slides of the paintings viewed by these subjects represent Western nonobjective painting between 1900 and 1983, and have been categorized by art professionals into groupings based on their similarity of visual structure. Nine categories with ten hierarchically ranked slides in each compose the stimulus set in which Amorphous, Geometric and Organic conceptions of visual structure were evident. Subjects' responses to these stimuli were measured using ratings on semantic differential scales and a free and exemplar classification task.

Name thesis:degree_name

Educat.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Hoard, Adrienne Walker

• Education, Art

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8623321

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69061