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: | The journal of aesthetics and art criticism / American Society for Aesthetics. Ed. Thomas Munro |
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Sprache: | eng |
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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. |
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Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
ISSN: | 0021-8529 |