Basic Actions in Art Study: Toward an Intelligent Environment for Human Creative Interaction

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to make clear basic actions of art researchers on which a new intelligent environment can be built. To achieve this aim, firstly, with the help of philosophical aesthetics, I make clear two ways of thinking which underlie art study –genealogical thinking and classificatory thinking (Ch.2). Then, from these two ways of thinking I make explicit basic actions of professional art researchers. From genealogical thinking I draw out basic actions of collecting and relating (Ch.3), behind the classificatory thinking I find basic actions of extracting, assigning, and reading (Ch.4). Furthermore, in order to encourage beginners to do these actions, I try to suggest two directions of possible intelligent environment. For genealogical actions I suggest an intelligent environment that makes it possible to transform a pictorial image and to collect images that are historically relevant to the image. For classificatory actions I suggest an intelligent environment that helps beginners to read the hidden meaning of reviewer’s comments.