Context effects on the perception of saturation of fruit colors in still-life paintings.

ABSTRACT: Still-life painters, especially of the so-called Golden Age (17th century) in the Netherlands, are famous for their masterful techniques of rendering reality. Their amazing abilities to depict different material properties of fruits and flowers are stunning. But how important are these careful arrangements of different objects for the perception of an individual item? Is the perceived color saturation of a single fruit influenced by its surrounding context? We selected fruits in still-life paintings as stimuli to investigate whether and how perceived saturations of fruits were affected by their original contexts. In our study, we focused especially on effects of five context properties: complementary colors, chromatic and luminance contrast, object overlap, and surround variance. Six fruit

SUBMITTER: Toscani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10664727 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature