This paper aims to provide a psychologically multi-dimensional integrative model that can give a comprehensive account for human aesthetic experiences. Most of the previous studies on psychological approaches to the aesthetic experiences have focused ...
This paper aims to provide a psychologically multi-dimensional integrative model that can give a comprehensive account for human aesthetic experiences. Most of the previous studies on psychological approaches to the aesthetic experiences have focused on analyzing the relationship between physical attributes of objects and aesthetic experiences on the objects. These previous studies, however, have failed to take into account various aspects of human aesthetic experiences, simply providing the limited understanding of them In order that the theory of art psychology can have more explanatory power for the human aesthetic experiences, it should be able to account for not only the aesthetic responses drawn from a combination of colors and forms but also those drawn from associations and symbolic meanings that are generated from objects represented in a painting. The present study provides an Integrative model that Is based on the process of human understanding of aesthetic objects and that integrates a variety of conventional models proposed in the previous studies on human aesthetic experiences. This new model consists of three dimensions: sensory, reflexive and reflective dimensions.