Artistic Perception as a Possible Factor in Personality Style: Its Measurement By a Figure Preference Test

The relationship between aesthetic preference and visual complexity in absract art

“…This is in accord with the findings of Eysenck (1941), Barron & Welsh (1952), and Taylor & Eisenman (1964). The failure to show any significant relationship between sex and complexity preference or between complexity Fig.…”

“…The finding by Vanderplas & Garvin (1959) that undergraduates associated the most meaning with polygons of low complexity I e nt credence to the not ion that aesthetically preferred forms were simple in structure (Birkhoff, 1933). However, and Barron & Welsh (1952) fOllnd preference to be positively related to increasing complexity, particularly among artists. In addition, Taylor & Eisenman (1964) found that more crcative ar!…”

“…In addition, Eisenman 's finding of significan t sex differences in complexity preference was examined. Barron (1963) has suggested that the person who prefers complexity is more likely to be nonconforming, flexible, and creative than the person who prefers simple stimuli. Consequently, it was hypothesized that Ss who preferred high complexity would have higher extraversion (E) scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) (1964) than those who preferred low comp1exity.…”

A theory of the creativity-intelligence interaction: an environmental suppressor variable

“…,Frank Barron (1952Barron ( , 1958Barron ( , 1959Barron ( , 1968Barron ( , 1969 (Barron, 1969). O'thers (Brogden and Sprecher, 1964;Taylor and Holland, 1964;Getzels and Jackson, 1962) have concurred.…”

The Prediction of Academic Success and the Ability to Draw at a School of Design1

“…Some tests were administered to only one of the two classes in order to allow for a broader sampling of available instruments. Test as described in Barron and Welsh (1952) (see Rosen, 1955) Table 7 along with correlations between predicted and actual performance for the Class of 1967.…”