Public art aesthetics and psychological healing

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
Field Value
 
Title Public art aesthetics and psychological healing
 
Creator Hu, Rong
 
Subject Education; Sociology; Psychology; Cultural Studies public art; aesthetic experience; cognitive psychology; psychological healing; artistic practice
Description Modern medical research shows that art aesthetic plays a positive role in healing and relieving people’s stress, improving mental health and improving social adaptability. Based on the aesthetic experience of visitors, this article conducts an empirical study on the aesthetic experience of the Long March Memorial Museum in Ninghua County, Fujian province, by means of survey data questionnaire (SD) and in-depth interview. Firstly, to conduct a questionnaire survey to understand the psychological characteristics of visitors’ aesthetic experience. Secondly, the combination of in-depth interviews and the aesthetic differences of public art psychological analysis. Thirdly, to clarify the relationship between public art aesthetics and psychological healing. By constructing a model of the relationship between public art aesthetics and psychological healing, it puts forward five ways of psychological healing, such as enhancing aesthetic experience, arousing life interest, enriching cultural and artistic knowledge, shaping individual psychology and relieving emotional pressure.Contribution: Public art aesthetics is not only influenced by the politics, culture, customs and lifestyles of society but also has a close relationship with religious beliefs. This article attempts to explain the relationship between public art aesthetics and psychological healing from the dimension of cognitive psychology and proposes a path for public art aesthetics to promote psychological healing, so as to enrich and expand the connotation of traditional aesthetic thought and further deepen the study of religious art in psychological healing, aiming to provide useful ideas and references for promoting the all-round development of human beings.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor This paper was supported by two projects from the Special Project of China Higher Education Association “Research on the Development of Campus Sculpture in Local Universities from Aesthetic Perspective”(21DWYB03)
Date 2023-07-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literary Analysis; Survey/Interview
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v79i1.8827
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 79, No 1 (2023); 9 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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