Abstract
While previous studies imply that there is a positive correlation between the openness in the big-five personality traits and the aesthetic preference for visual arts, recent empirical studies also suggest that the aesthetic dimension of value is one of the crucial factors related to individual differences in aesthetic evaluations of arts. Thus, we explored whether openness and the aesthetic dimension of value would affect aesthetic evaluations of paintings. In the survey, 110 undergraduates were asked to evaluate 24 paintings using 4 scales of aesthetic evaluation (beautiful, pleasant, good and likable). They were also asked to complete a questionnaire assessing their degrees of the openness and the aesthetic dimension of value. Results demonstrate that the openness didn't clearly relate to aesthetic evaluations of paintings but that the aesthetic dimension of value significantly related to those.
