By Francis John Corva III Art amp Big Feelings Have you ever truly been moved by art Has it ever changed the trajectory of your life If so what was that piece of art and what was your reaction ID: 930615
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Let’s Get Moved by Art
By: Francis John Corva, III
Slide2Art & Big Feelings
Have you ever truly been moved by art? Has it ever changed the trajectory of your life?
If so, what was that piece of art and what was your reaction?
Slide3What Has Moved Me
Photographer:
Sebastiao
Salgado
Workers
Slide4What Has Moved Me
Steppenwolf
By: Herman Hesse
Slide5Fiction
Has a piece of fiction ever moved you or changed your life?
If so, what was it and what was your reaction?
Slide6On Being Moved by Art (Djikic et al.)
What were these researchers testing?
What did they find?
Slide7On Being Moved by Art (Djikic et al.)
The researchers in this experiment hypothesized that art can cause significant changes in the experience of one’s own personality traits
In reviewing the literature, the researchers found that other researchers had not researched the impact of art on the personalities of those who appreciate it
Researchers agreed that “books were powerful instigators of self-change” and “transformative” (Djikic et al. 24)
Slide8On Being Moved by Art (Djikic et al.)
Researchers explored the questions of 1.) can stable ways of relating to oneself and others be changed (after 30 years of age) and 2.) does art facilitate a process of personal maturation?
Researchers cite other researchers who found that reading fictional literature can reshape
schematic constructions
(Gerrig; Kuiken, Miall, & Sikora; Miall & Kuiken)
Past research has shown that art includes moving emotions and can even lead the way toward more permanent changes in personality structure (Oatley; Langer)
Slide9On Being Moved by Art (Djikic et al.)
The researchers gave one set of participants the short story
The Lady with the Toy Dog
by Anton Chekhov and another set information from this story, but in documentary form (including a court document of a divorce proceeding)
Participants also completed questionnaires of the Big-Five Inventory and Emotions Checklist before and after reading
Slide10On Being Moved by Art (Djikic et al.)
Short story – experimental condition
The original
The Lady with the Toy Dog
by Anton Chekhov
(a famous short story writer)Comparison text – control conditionA version of the text above with many of the artistic qualities removed from it
Slide11On Being Moved by Art (Djikic et al.)
Results:
In the experimental group, notably higher degrees of trait changes and emotional changes occurred after the reading as compared to the control group
Slide12On Being Moved by Art (Djikic et al.)
Discussion:
Art can cause significant changes in self-reported experience of traits as well as in the role of emotion
“People who read literary art respond in kind to what could be the artist’ own process of transformation through emotional change, encoded symbolically within the art” (Djikic, Oatley, & Peterson)
It can be assumed that this process not only leads to a gradual change of oneself, but that it helps people to have a better understanding of others, as well
Slide13On Being Moved by Art (Djikic et al.)
Discussion (cont.):
The researchers do not claim that it is a fact that fictional reading changes personalities and alters emotions, but they do suggest that the artistic form can create “subtle shifts in vision” and that the human psyche seems to respond to artistic representation
Slide14Neil Gaiman
- “Make Good Art”
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikAb-NYkseI