People born love love beauty

Beautiful art because we are taught that way, or is the concept of beauty available in our brains? Researchers have shown that people value beauty based on pre-programmed standards.

The group of researchers in Italy showed volunteers the original and modified images of Renaissance sculptures. They selected 14 people who had no knowledge of art to see what biological factors play a role in enjoying beauty.

The balance of the statues reflects the golden ratio, a mathematical figure known from ancient Greece and always associated with Renaissance artists with ideal beauty. In nature, the golden ratio can be seen in the shape of a shell, or spiral particles in strawberries. It also describes the whirlwind, galaxy, or flight pattern of a falcon hunting.

Jessica Simpson is considered to have a face that almost matches perfectly with the golden ratio.(Photo: Cramscience)

Specifically, the gold ratio is equivalent to 1,618. In art, the golden ratio is seen in the Parthenon in Athens, the Giza Pyramid and the Mona Lisa painting. The results showed that the original images that strongly activated the brain region (including the insula lobes) were emotionally related, and the distorted images were not.

"We were surprised to see that only a very small correction in the pictures led to a major change in brain activity," said researcher Giacomo Rizzolatti at the University of Parma, Italy.

Besides, the researchers also asked participants to evaluate the beauty of each work.The supposedly beautiful images trigger the right ganglion region, which is often the original image instead of the modified image.

The results show that the perception of beauty is based on the existing concepts in the brain located in the insula lobes, and then stimulating the emotional area of ​​the amygdala.

"However, Renaissance art is only considered beautiful in Western culture. We need to do experiments on other cultures to see if these standards are global or only associated with each region, " said Cinzia Di Dio , a researcher at Parma University.

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