How Will Sense of Values Change during Art Appreciation?

For the art appreciation in museums, usually a certain information will be provided as a caption. Visitors usually read the description to help his/her understanding. Museums usually prepare such descriptions for general visitors (viewers). The problem for reading these captions is visitors will not see the artworks after reading the descriptions to understand the art works. However, recently several museums have removed or hidden such descriptions as captions. For instance, the exhibition “Bacon and Caravaggio” held in Museo e Galleria Borghese, Roma did not provide any descriptions as captions. Accordingly visitors can see and think the artworks deeply. This might be a positive aspect of the display strategy. Thus experts show greater flexibility and differentiation in art appreciation. Non-experts will not show flexibility and differentiation in art appreciation. This is a problem in art appreciation. We have conducted several experiments where various types of information offering strategies were performed. From the results, we obtained interesting phenomenon. The participants seemed to be able to gradually understand the artwork by offering information of the artwork. Of course for an abstract art, the information of the artworks functions better understanding of artworks. Even for a representational painting, the level of understanding was gradually changing. Thus the information of art sometimes influences the art appreciation. However, a price will not be related to aesthetics. For the price, it is a rather vulgar matter. However, such a price can be an influential factor in art appreciation and sense of values. In this paper, we will discuss how will the value of art change according to offered information? For that we conducted an experiment. Where information of the artwork was offered randomly. Information involved title, painting materials, production year, name of artist, price, and theme of the artwork.