Emotional Arousal by Traditional Gongbi Color Symbols and Digital Light-Shadow Narratives: Beneficial Effects on Audience Mental Health
Yiran Tao, Que LeiAbstract
Objective
Modern people face ubiquitous life and work psychological pressure, accompanied by restless mental states and declining mental health. Traditional fine brushwork color symbols and innovative digital light and shadow narratives have unique visual emotional arousal effects. From the visual psychological perspective, this paper explores their internal emotional arousal paths, aiming to ease public visual psychological pressure, regulate disordered mental states and promote positive mental health via traditional and digital visual art.
Subjects and Methods
This study selects ordinary viewers with different art appreciation experiences as research objects. It adopts visual psychological experiment, comparative text analysis and emotional scale testing. It monitors viewers’ changes in visual psychological pressure, real-time mental states and mental health levels stimulated by fine brushwork colors and digital light and shadow works, and summarizes diversified emotional arousal mechanisms.
Results
Gentle and harmonious traditional fine brushwork colors can effectively relieve viewers’ accumulated visual psychological pressure and calm impetuous mental states. Well-designed digital light and shadow narratives further enrich emotional guidance effects, optimize individual inner mental states, and jointly produce obvious soothing effects on public sub-health mental conditions.
Conclusions
Both traditional fine brushwork color symbols and digital light and shadow narratives have effective emotional arousal and psychological soothing functions. Integrating two visual art forms can better alleviate modern people’s chronic psychological pressure, repair negative mental states caused by anxiety, improve public mental health, and provide new ideas for art-based psychological healing design.
Corresponding Author
Que Lei, School of Fine Arts and Design, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdong, China.