Collège de France
20 mai 2014

Painting, Facture and Emotion

'Painting, Facture and Emotion' is a multidisciplinary workshop organised by Jérôme Pelletier on may 20 2014 at College de France in Paris. This workshop is part of the French National Research Agency projects conducted by Jérôme Pelletier (www.ave-fiction.ens.fr).

This one-day workshop brought together philosophers of art (Gregory Currie, David Davies, Dom Lopes) art historians (Yolaine Escande, Georges Roque) and neuroscientists (Alain Berthoz, Stéphanie Dubal and José Luis Ulloa Fulgeri).

The woskshop aim was to investigate, both at the conceptual level and at the empirical level, the relations between the perceptual experience of facture in a painting and the beholder’s aesthetic experience.
 

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Introducion by Jérôme Pelletier
( 16 min 19 sec )

 

 Stéphanie Dubal & José Luis Ulloa Fulgeri
(Projet « Art Visuel et Émotion »,
Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab (SAN),
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere (ICM)),
"Using visuomotor priming to investigate aesthetic experience"
( 30 min 26 sec )

 

Georges Roque
(Histoire et théorie des arts plastiques, CRAL/EHESS)
"Neo-impressionism Art and Technique; its Relationship to 'Faktura'"
( 41 min 35 sec )

 

 Georges Roque 
Questions & Answers
( 9 min 49 sec )

 

 Alain Berthoz
(Neuroscience, Collège de France)
"Emotional sharing with the artwork: gesture, gaze, empathy"
( 50 min 18 sec )

 

 Alain Berthoz
Questions & Answers
( 10 min 46 sec )

 

  Gregory Currie
(Philosophie, University of York, Professeur invité de l'EHESS et du CRAL, mai 2014)
"Marks on images in painting, photography and cinematography"
( 35 min 52 sec )

   

Gregory Currie
Questions & Answers
( 27 min 23 sec )

 

David Davies
(Philosophie, McGill University)
"Evidence of facture and the appreciative relevance of artistic activity"
( 39 min 33 sec )

 

 David Davies
Questions & answers
( 23 min 42 sec )

 

 Yolaine Escande
(Projet « Art Visuel et Émotion », Théorie des arts chinois, CRAL/CNRS)
"Emotion and Brushstroke in Modern Chinese Aesthetics and Theory of Arts"
( 42 min 45 sec )

 

 Yolaine Escande
Questions & answers
( 9 min 52 sec )

 

   Dominic Lopes
(Philosophie, University of British Columbia)
"Implicit Multimodal Aesthetic Experience"
( 34 min 25 sec )

 

    Dominic Lopes
Questions & answers
( 34 min 25 sec )