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Ss, ranging in age from 5 years to adult, were asked to sort a set of oil paintings into groups of their own choice. The results indicated that fI) subject matter was the strongest determiner of children’s sorting behavior, (2) only the adults showed a high frequency of groupings by artistic style, and (3) color was seldom used as a basis for sorting by any age group. These findings were interpreted in terms of their implications for teaching the artistic style concept to children.
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This research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grant 1-TO1-HD-203-02, NIH Predoctoral Fellowship MH-37,813 to the first author, and NIH Predoctoral Fellowship MH-42,881 to the second author. We gratefully acknowledge the help of Drs. Richard D. Walk and Jacqueline J. Goodnow in the preparation of the manuscript. First authorship was determined by a flip of a coin.
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Frechtling, J.A., Davidson, P.W. The development of the concept of artistic style: A free classification study. Psychon Sci 18, 79–81 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335705
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