抄録
Activities enabling visually challenged people to enjoy works of art through verbal communication with people who can see are spreading throughout Japan. These activities started in response to visually challenged people's desire to enjoy two-dimensional works of art, paintings and drawings, that should not be touched. Participating in such activities, I found some problems. Many people who are not visually challenged feel stress when participating; they don't know how to describe works of art to the visually challenged and are unsure about what to say.
In order to solve this problem, I looked for fundamental factors of viewing works of art, factors that everyone has clues for when discussing a work of art upon seeing it for the first time at a gallery. In this essay, I analyzed spontaneous remarks and conversations of viewers with no specialized knowledge of art or art history when they see works of art. From these analyses, I found that their remarks and conversations correspond approximately to the three factors that Nancy R. Smith indicated as the clues to understanding children's drawings, considering the development of their drawing: narrative/ideological factor, emotional factor, composition factor. Observing what people feel when they see a work of art, instead of trying to find the answer in the work itself or the artist, essentially corresponds with the expression factors of children. We were all artists when we were children. Such remarks and conversation describing works of art go beyond informing people who are visually challenged, resulting in creating shared images.
