Abstract
This study investigated 73 designed beginners who drew the Venus plaster and completed the 7-dimensional Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) test. Next, 5-point scales were used to compare the degrees of the facial similarity between the paintings and photos of the beginners who created the paintings. The results indicated that over half of the paintings were similar to the photos of the painters, and the similarity was significantly correlated with narcissism. For example, the painters with self-sufficient personalities were more likely to exhibit assertiveness, independence, self-confidence, and need for achievement; thus, they were automatically drawn to their own sense of personal feelings as projected onto the drawings, which naturally tended to look like themselves. These results might help the educators in the design field identify the likely NPI-associated psychological and behavioral outcomes of design beginners by observing the contexts of their paintings.
Highlights
Are you aware of why novice artists create pieces that reflect their individual personalities? Before this experiment, I found that design beginner’s paintings of the Venus plaster look somewhat like the beginners themselves.Does this phenomenon imply that the content of a painting is really hiding unknown aspects of the designer’s personality? Many researchers have begun to show a growing interest in the psychological aspects of human drawings since the end of the 19th century
The results indicated that the degree of facial similarity in the paintings was correlated with narcissism of the painters
Examinations of the relationships between personality and narcissismtraits and paintings are rather new in the design field, the present experiment successfully revealed the varied narcissistic dimension of the participants by presenting paintings with photos of their painters
Summary
Are you aware of why novice artists create pieces that reflect their individual personalities? Before this experiment, I found that design beginner’s paintings of the Venus plaster look somewhat like the beginners themselves.Does this phenomenon imply that the content of a painting is really hiding unknown aspects of the designer’s personality? Many researchers have begun to show a growing interest in the psychological aspects of human drawings since the end of the 19th century. I found that design beginner’s paintings of the Venus plaster look somewhat like the beginners themselves. Does this phenomenon imply that the content of a painting is really hiding unknown aspects of the designer’s personality? There have been numerous assertions that figure drawings, as projections of inner feelings, thoughts, conflicts, compensations, and perceptions, significantly reflect personality features (Daoud & Breik, 2009). The underlying assumption is that a person projects important aspects of his or her “self-image” when asked to draw a figure (Aronoff & McCormick, 1990; Goodenough & Harris, 1950; Isaksson et al, 2009; Sidun & Rosenthal, 1987; Stucke & Sporer, 2002). This study assumed that the phenomenon of reflecting self-image onto Venus drawings might be associated with narcissism
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