TAILIEUCHUNG - Aesthetic phenomena as supernormal stimuli: The case of eye, lip, and lower-face size and roundness in artistic portraits

Another aspect of the distinction between mere experience and an experience involves the relationship between doing and undergoing. ‘A man does something; he lifts, let us say, a stone. In consequence he undergoes, suffers, something: the weight, strain, texture of the surface of the thing lifted. The properties thus undergone determine further doing’ (p. 44). Dewey goes on to say, ‘An experience has pattern and structure, because it is not just doing and undergoing in alternation, but consists of them in relationship. . | Perception 2006 volume 35 pages 229 -246 DOI p3449 Aesthetic phenomena as supernormal stimuli The case of eye lip and lower-face size and roundness in artistic portraits Marco Costa Leonardo Corazza Department of Psychology University of Bologna viale Berti Pichat 5 I 40127 Bologna Italy e-mail Received 2nd September 2002 in revised form 11 September 2005 published online 18 January 2006 Abstract. In the first study eye and lip size and roundness and lower-face roundness were compared between a control sample of 289 photographic portraits and an experimental sample of 776 artistic portraits covering the whole period of the history of art. Results showed that eye roundness lip roundness eye height eye width and lip height were significantly enhanced in artistic portraits compared to photographic ones. Lip width and lower-face roundness on the contrary were less prominent in artistic than in photographic portraits. In a second study forty-two art academy students were requested to draw two self-portraits one with a mirror and one without from memory . Eye lip and lower-face roundness in artistic self-portraits was compared to the same features derived from photographic portraits of the participants. The results obtained confirmed those found in the first study. Eye and lip size and roundness were greater in artistic self-portraits while lower-face roundness was significantly reduced. The same degree of modification was found also when a mirror was available to the subjects. In a third study the effect of lower-face roundness on the perception of attractiveness was assessed fifty-three participants had to adjust the face width of 24 photographic portraits in order to achieve the highest level of attractiveness. Participants contracted the face width by a mean value of showing a preference for a reduced lower-face roundness. All results are discussed in terms of the importance of the supernormalisation process as a means of assigning .

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