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Presentation 2021-12-23 13:00
Vermeer's left and Chirico's right -- Top-left-lighting assumption and scene-dependent effect --
Kayo Miura (Kyushu Univ.), Kun Qian (Fukuoka Univ.) HIP2021-48
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(in English) Because the majority of humans are right-handed, the light source in pictures is often placed in the upper left. Since the same is true for drawing, less than 80% of Western paintings are drawn with left lighting (Sun & Perona, 1998). Thus, we propose the following hypotheses: 1) Due to mere exposure effect, paintings drawn with left lighting may be preferred regardless of the scene. However, since many pictures are drawn with a left light source, the left-light paintings may give a natural impression and fit scenes of everyday life (e.g. Vermeer’s paintings), while right-lighting painting may give an unnatural impression and better suit extraordinary or surreal scenes (e.g. Chirico’s paintings). Thus 2) in paintings depicting natural scenes, left-lighting may be preferred and judged to be appropriate. In paintings depicting surreal or unusual scenes, right lighting may be preferred and judged to be more suitable. Using paintings that can be easily specified the direction of the light direction, taking into account the situation depicted in the scene and hand dominance, we examined preference for paintings and suitability of lighting direction. Results of the paired comparison supported both the hypothesis of left-lighting preference and the hypothesis of the scene-dependence. Results of the rating scale, however, (excluding left-lighting preference), were inconsistent with those of paired comparison. As paired comparison is a method in which direction of the light source is easy to be conscious and subtle difference in impression is also easy to reflect, we argued that the study showed not only the left-lighting preference but also the scene-dependent effect of suitable lighting direction.
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(in English) Top-left-lighting assumption / Art / Painting / Mere exposure effect / Scene-dependent effect / Hand dominance / Paired comparison method / Rating scale method  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 121, no. 312, HIP2021-48, pp. 1-6, Dec. 2021.
Paper # HIP2021-48 
Date of Issue 2021-12-16 (HIP) 
ISSN Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2021-12-23 - 2021-12-24 
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Conference Code 2021-12-HIP 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Vermeer's left and Chirico's right 
Sub Title (in English) Top-left-lighting assumption and scene-dependent effect 
Keyword(1) Top-left-lighting assumption  
Keyword(2) Art  
Keyword(3) Painting  
Keyword(4) Mere exposure effect  
Keyword(5) Scene-dependent effect  
Keyword(6) Hand dominance  
Keyword(7) Paired comparison method  
Keyword(8) Rating scale method  
1st Author's Name Kayo Miura  
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu Univerity (Kyushu Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kun Qian  
2nd Author's Affiliation Fukuoka University (Fukuoka Univ.)
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Date Time 2021-12-23 13:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for HIP 
Paper # HIP2021-48 
Volume (vol) vol.121 
Number (no) no.312 
Page pp.1-6 
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Date of Issue 2021-12-16 (HIP) 


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