> The volunteers, aged between 21 and 65, were attached to an electroencephalogram (EEG) brain scanner and eye-tracking equipment and asked to look at five paintings in the museum, plus posters of them in the museum shop.
Ok got a few criticisms of that..
> Researchers also looked at the effects of images of real works versus reproductions flashed on to volunteers’ goggles, inside a University of Amsterdam functional MRI scanning machine. “If you want to know what people think, it is better to measure it than to ask them,” he said. “The results were extraordinary.”
>The real artworks evoked a strong positive response in the precuneus, part of the brain involved with consciousness, self-reflection and personal memories, researchers said. Gerrit van Honthorst’s The Violin Player gave a positive “approach” stimulus of 0.41 out of 1 in real life, for instance, but just 0.05 in poster form.
Ok that makes me feel better. A bit. So many confounding issues. There's no visual texture in a repro. If they hung well made Chinese copies I'd be interested. or did contemporary re-takes of GWAPE in a nice frame.
"it depends" But Sure, your emotional posture to repro posters and the real thing, scarcity has a value all of it's own (to counterphrase Stalin/Napoleon/etc)
> The volunteers, aged between 21 and 65, were attached to an electroencephalogram (EEG) brain scanner and eye-tracking equipment and asked to look at five paintings in the museum, plus posters of them in the museum shop.
Ok got a few criticisms of that..
> Researchers also looked at the effects of images of real works versus reproductions flashed on to volunteers’ goggles, inside a University of Amsterdam functional MRI scanning machine. “If you want to know what people think, it is better to measure it than to ask them,” he said. “The results were extraordinary.”
>The real artworks evoked a strong positive response in the precuneus, part of the brain involved with consciousness, self-reflection and personal memories, researchers said. Gerrit van Honthorst’s The Violin Player gave a positive “approach” stimulus of 0.41 out of 1 in real life, for instance, but just 0.05 in poster form.
Ok that makes me feel better. A bit. So many confounding issues. There's no visual texture in a repro. If they hung well made Chinese copies I'd be interested. or did contemporary re-takes of GWAPE in a nice frame.
"it depends" But Sure, your emotional posture to repro posters and the real thing, scarcity has a value all of it's own (to counterphrase Stalin/Napoleon/etc)