Influence of lighting colour on visual evaluation of landscape paintings - Focus on some Claude Monet’s artworks

Authors

Shino Okuda, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Japan
Sakiho Yagi, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Japan
Satoko Taguchi, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
Katsunori Okajima, Yokohama National University, Japan
Manuel Melgosa, University of Granada, Spain

Abstract

Lighting colour is an important factor influencing the visual appearance of paintings, and, especially in landscape paintings, it may cause different subjective time and space perceptions. This study aims to clarify the influence of lighting colour on the appearance of specific landscape paintings. A subjective experiment was conducted using images of three Claude Monet landscapes (“Rouen Cathedral”, “Sunset on the Seine in Winter” and “Water Lily Pond”) from the Pola Museum of Art. We reproduced the appearance of these paintings under 20 lighting conditions with different CCT and duv values. The results showed that the time of the depicted landscape tends to be perceived as evening, and the season as autumn when the CCT of lighting is low. Also, CCT has a significant effect on observers’ preferences, higher colour temperatures being more favourable.

Keywords

light colour; museum lighting; painting preference; colour emotion

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.625

Citation

Okuda, S., Yagi, S., Taguchi, S., Okajima, K.,and Melgosa, M.(2023) Influence of lighting colour on visual evaluation of landscape paintings - Focus on some Claude Monet’s artworks, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9-13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.625

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