Baby favors Picasso experts recommend toys with bright contrasting colors

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What can a baby say about Cubism and Impressionism? A report published in the journal Aesthetics, Creativity and Art Psychology shows that in a study of five series of experiments, the work of the Spanish painter Picasso made a more intense appeal to these diaper-covered subjects.

In the face of art, everyone can become a critic, and small babies are no exception. However, compared with adults, is the world in their eyes different? A recent study found that between Monet and Picasso, a group of nine-month-old critics threw an olive branch to the latter.

The lead author of the study, Trikes Cachione, a psychologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, explained: “At 9 months of age, the baby’s vision is close to the adult level. For the baby, a painting It only represents a pattern of perception. To a large extent, it is still the low-level functions of the visual system that determine their aesthetic inclination."

The researchers asked the subjects who only screamed or slobbered to sit on the parents' legs, watch the paintings on the computer screen, and removed some naughty bags that were too difficult to serve in the experiment.

In one of the experiments, the test group consisted of 14 female infants and 10 male infants. Some of them watched six Picasso paintings, while the other watched six Monet's works. The researchers measured how long the babies observed each painting. Later, Picasso's "The Scenery of Lyon-les-Pins" and Monet's "Poppy Fields near Giverny" were presented side by side to the baby. Experiments have shown that babies who have seen Monet's work have preferred Picasso, but the baby who has seen Picasso's paintings has also given his new map a longer time.

In another experiment, the researchers presented the baby with the works of Monet and Picasso that they had seen before, but this time it was black and white. The babies still spend more time staring at Picasso's picture.

Picasso's works are rough, colorful, and contrasting, while Monet's works are softer in color and contrast. Cachione said that as early as in her observations, she found that infants were interested in abstract paintings such as the former, but surprisingly, the experiment showed that "this preference is not related to the color of the work."

Although Cachione admits that she can only speculate on the reasons why the baby prefers Picasso, she intuitively feels that these abstract images "are easier to process for their still developing visual system and maximize the visual stimuli. ".

What is the practical significance of this discovery for the parents of the baby? Caccione suggested: "Maybe when we decorate the baby's toys, we should use a bright contrasting color instead of a relatively chaotic soft color." Han Xiaochen / Compilation

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