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| Author: | Jacobsen, T. Wolsdorff, C. |
| Title: | Does history affect aesthetic preference? Kandinsky's teaching of colour-form correspondence, empirical aesthetics, and the Bauhaus |
| Journal: | Design Journal
2007 : VOL 10:3, p. 16-27 |
| Index terms: | art history painting |
| Freeterms: | aesthetics design visual arts |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper studies the ways in which history and aesthetic preference are related. The article starts from Kandinsky's postulate of a significant correspondence between colour and form. A recent empirical study suggested that half of the non-artist students studied chose red for the triangle, blue for the square and yellow for the circle. Kandinsky's assignment was the least preferred among non-artist students. The point was made that the students' choices were based on knowledge of traffic signs, warning triangles and the yellow sun. However, a new study suggested differing assignments. This article argues that colour-form assignments depend on world knowledge, education, historical change, societal, group-specific and individual factors. The paper also illustrates Kandinsky's colour-form assignment's development into the symbol for the Bauhaus through a historical process. |
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