Experiencing atmospheres in paintings

Paintings can exert a strong effect on their viewers by creating atmospheres. But how is it possible for a painting to create an atmosphere? My goal in this paper is to provide a partial answer to this question by focusing on the depiction of light. I argue that paintings can elicit experiences of a...

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Veröffentlicht in:˜Theœ journal of aesthetics and art criticism / American Society for Aesthetics. Ed. Thomas Munro
1. Verfasser: Jagnow, René (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Zusammenfassung:Paintings can exert a strong effect on their viewers by creating atmospheres. But how is it possible for a painting to create an atmosphere? My goal in this paper is to provide a partial answer to this question by focusing on the depiction of light. I argue that paintings can elicit experiences of atmospheres in part because they can depict pictorial space as filled with ambient light that has a distinctive phenomenal character. It is in virtue of this distinctive phenomenal character that the depicted ambient light can make a significant contribution to the overall phenomenal character of the experienced atmosphere.
Beschreibung:Illustrationen
ISSN:0021-8529