AESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE AND ARTISTIC EMOTIONALITY IN THE STRUCTURE OF AESTHETIC CAPABILITIES OF ART MAJOR STUDENTS
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https://doi.org/10.34142/23129387.2026.74.14Keywords:
aesthetic intelligence, designers, artists, artistic emotionality, empathy, art education, professional training, aesthetic perceptionAbstract
Relevance of the study. Recently, new constructs of intellectual abilities have emerged, including emotional, social, practical, interpersonal, spiritual, and bodily intelligences. The conceptualization and validation of the construct of aesthetic intelligence were presented in the study by V. Naichuk, K. Fomenko, and O. Kuznetsov (2021). However, there is no data on the connection between aesthetic intelligence and artistic emotionality of artists.
Results and Conclusions. Aesthetic intelligence is the ability to understand, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and use information about objects and phenomena of surrounding reality of natural or artificial origin obtained through aesthetic perception in order to solve everyday and professional tasks.
Aesthetic intelligence is a complex multidimensional phenomenon integrating perceptual, emotional-value, cognitive, and cultural components that determine the depth and quality of aesthetic cognition. The ability for subtle sensory differentiation, emotional response to artistic images, analytical processing of their structure, and semantic interpretation forms the foundation of the creative activity of future designers.
Artistic-imagery emotionality is a component of aesthetic abilities manifested in the ability to respond emotionally to an aesthetic object. Artistic-aesthetic emotionality is revealed through impressive emotionality as the vividness and intensity of emotional reactions to an aesthetic object; artistic empathy as the ability to understand the artistic content of an object; and prognostic artistic empathy as the ability to understand the creator’s intention in producing an aesthetic object.
Empirically, no differences were found in the level of artistic-aesthetic abilities between designers and artists, including those with different levels of emotional intelligence. The ability to empathize with the character of an artistic work and to predict the further development of events according to the creator’s intention is characterized by a predominance of the medium level, whereas the emotionality of artistic-aesthetic perception among artists and designers appeared to be predominantly weak.
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