Original scientific paper
The examination of the experience of the work of art and possibilities of their applying in diagnostics, creative and art-therapy
Dunja Pivac
orcid.org/0000-0002-1362-3640
; Sveučilište u Splitu, Umjetnička akademija, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
In this study the research results of applying selected works of art on an available sample of 75 female subjects at the age of 22 to 24 are presented. The available sample consisted of four available sub-samples: female students of The Arts Academy, The Faculty of Philosophy, and The Faculty of Economics of The University of Split, and patients hospitalized in The Gynaecological Ward of The Clinical Hospital in Split. The aim of the research was related to the examination of the visual art message experience in relation to personal characteristics. For this purpose is defined the starting hypothesis according to individual characteristics of subjects personality have an impact on visual work of art, selection and reception, particularly its symbolic and aesthetic component.
According to the study protocol self-questionnaire SCL-90 and visual-analogy scales of self-evaluation with induced variables for the model of five selected visual works of art (by H.-É.-B. Matisse, Rembrandt H. van Rijn, P.-A. Renoir, D. T. El Greco and J. Pollock) are applied. The original data for controlled variables are analyzed by using: One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Factorial Analysis
and Canonical Covariance Analysis. The research results are interpreted in the context of contemporary interdisciplinary approaches in the concept of creative therapy and art-expressive psychotherapies and they based on the scientific project Complementary Supportive Therapies and Development of Life Potentials” (013-0000000-3214), supported by The Ministry of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia. The results of the research confirm the correlation between examined personality and individual responsiveness in the experience of the work of art. Furthermore, they represent a contribution to modern tendencies in developing integrative, complementary and holistic approaches in different areas of education, therapy and rehabilitation.
Keywords
visual work of art; diagnostics; creative and art-therapy; interdisciplinary approach
Hrčak ID:
109419
URI
Publication date:
4.11.2013.
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