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Many sculptures home and abroad in both ancient and modern times have the presentation mode of incomplete beauty. Apart from its aesthetic ideology and enjoyment, it can further initiate abstract and deep thoughts of the audiences. The researchers notice that during the artistic creation, the work with incomplete beauty will interest audiences more. At the same time, in the world of art, it is mostly the artists themselves or the art critics are discussing about whether the using method of incomplete beauty is proper and whether the presenting effect of incomplete beauty is good, without a measuring standard. Therefore, this research mainly focuses on the cognitive differences and preference degree in different types of incomplete beauty among audiences. This research-based study takes nine sculptures with incomplete beauty as experimental samples, and conducts cognitive preference investigations among randomly selected audiences. The research results show that: (1) Although the works’ degree of incomplete beauty does not dominate the audiences’ preference degree, it could estimate the audiences’ preference towards the artistic works to a great extent. The higher the incomplete beauty degree is, the more audiences like the work. (2) The audiences have a wide acceptable range of the incomplete beauty in sculptures, not limited to certain features, while the rational conciseness and direct intensity attract the audiences more easily. (3) The works with vivid style and strong feelings are more easily be interpreted, so it is easier for the audiences to like these works.
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Tao, Y., Zheng, H.Q., Cao, J., Lin, PH. (2021). A Study on the Cognitive Differences of Incomplete Beauty in Sculptures Among Audiences. In: Rau, PL.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Applications in Arts, Learning, Well-being, and Social Development. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12772. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77077-8_5
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