Abstract Art and Emotion

Expressive Form and the Sense of Wholeness

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8336500
AutoresGilbert J Rose (25 Sammis Street, Box 215 Rowayton, CT 06853, autor de correspondencia)
Año1991
Volumen39
Número1
Páginas131-156
Fecha de publicación1991-03-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000306519103900107
PMID2026850
OpenAlexW2068655611
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas7

This paper limits itself to abstract art the better to concentrate on the relation between the emotionally expressive power of esthetic form–apart from its narrative content-and emotional responsiveness. The emotionally expressive power of art—not to be confused with the artist's own emotions–has to do with the way sensuous esthetic forms highlight the rhythmic changes of tension and release inherent in ordinary perceptual experience. Tension and release are useful terms in thinking about how the perception of an esthetic structure is transformed (transduced) into feelingful psychological meanings, and contributes to the subjective sense of wholeness. The sense of wholeness may be illusory and/or authentic depending on the mix of elements in the individual's responsiveness. It comes about through a unified organization of tension and release, as embodied in expressive forms such as rhythm and rhyme, resonating with tension and release evoked in the observer's associations to such psychological issues as separation and reunion. Having stirred the viewer's emotional responsiveness, the art work provides a reliable “container” for the objectification of latent emotions

Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Objectification · Perception · Preconscious · Psychoanalysis · Rhyme · Unconscious mind · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology

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