{"id":18409,"date":"2016-03-03T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/?p=18409"},"modified":"2016-03-03T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T07:00:05","slug":"men-women-art-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com.au\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/men-women-art-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Men &#038; Women See Art Differently?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/product\/details\/44611\/Gender\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/zatista-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/products\/16632_e6ebohvl9v9fsrtrmn8arvkgd0_7z22ZveUf1lTWdVD_1_390x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gender by Joe Rosshirt $1,995<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/10\/13\/men-women-art-differently-study_n_5976992.html?utm_hp_ref=art\">huffingtonpost.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>[In 2014 a study showed] that <a href=\"https:\/\/msutoday.msu.edu\/news\/2014\/when-judging-art-men-and-women-stand-apart\/?c\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:0}}\">the sexes exhibit distinct differences in how they evaluate art<\/a>: men tend to place more emphasis on the artist, women on the art itself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/product\/details\/44445\/The-Schoolmaster\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/zatista-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/products\/3475_pk05ukkrqkmpqq1l2ambhva933_67oLEM9Fu2FK17Tr_1_390x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Schoolmaster by Will Eskridge $360<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the study, 518 men and women were asked to judge two unfamiliar paintings and to read a fictitious biography of the artist who painted them. Some of the study participants read a biography that characterized the artist as &#8220;authentic&#8221; or experienced, while other participants read one that characterized the artist as &#8220;ordinary&#8221; or a beginner. The men and women didn&#8217;t know the biographies were fictitious.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/product\/details\/53342\/Red-Towel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/zatista-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/products\/19278_puml8qeuueuu80584rq1uc26d5_6gG0WGd4CK778cj4_1_390x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Towel by Nicholas Robertson $335<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The men and women then were asked whether they liked the artist and the artwork and whether they were interested in purchasing the artwork.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/product\/details\/24827\/Female-Cardinal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/zatista-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/products\/9157_u13fomqst587ur77fhparprd13_x6Zt7oRw8a1BfWC9_1_390x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female Cardinal by Kristen Westlake $1,465<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What did the researchers find?\u00a0When the artist was described as authentic, the men and women overall had a more favorable impression of both the artist and the artwork &#8212; no surprise there. But the men tended to base their decision on whether to buy the painting on details presented in the biography rather than on the painting&#8217;s artistic merits.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/product\/details\/14942\/Michelle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/zatista-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/products\/5842_bc41g84klr80fqsm3cq0q2hml2_r1m1C7UWRub1Jp4C_1_390x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle by Marie Vlasic $5,300<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Women are more willing to go through a complicated process of actually evaluating the artwork,&#8221; study co-author Dr. Stephanie Mangus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stephaniemangus\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:1}}\">assistant professor at Michigan State University&#8217;s Broad College of Business<\/a>, said in a written statement, &#8220;whereas men may say, &#8216;This guy&#8217;s a great artist, so I&#8217;ll buy his art.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Could there be some neurological basis to the different ways men and women look at art?<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/product\/details\/48293\/Boy-Girl-FRAMED\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/zatista-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/products\/15438_1vj67id3f5lvtidoec81v0fkd5_AsUJcRbxcjaeTQxq_1_390x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boy Girl FRAMED by Stephen Neil Gill $260<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I am not aware of any hardwired brain sex difference that would explain this,&#8221; neuroscientist Dr. Lise Eliot, an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/22\/brain-anatomy-male-female-video_n_3611886.html\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:2}}\">associate professor at the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University<\/a>, who was not involved in the study, told The Huffington Post in an email. &#8220;More likely, it has to do with a sex difference in artistic experience. We&#8217;ve seen a long-term trend of art becoming a &#8216;girl thing,&#8217; so that for decades, more girls than boys have been taking art classes and will have a greater understanding of technique, effort, and innovation&#8230; There may also be differences in one&#8217;s motivation to buy art. Perhaps men are buying more for investment and women, for aesthetic pleasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study was published in the August [2014] edition of the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/mar.20719\/abstract\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:3}}\">Psychology &amp; Marketing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, do you relate? Or do you think it&#8217;s a load of baloney? Let us know your thoughts here on Zatista.com.<\/p>\n<section class=\"extra-content\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, do you relate? 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