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According to a recent study from the University of Vienna, spending less than two minutes viewing Claude Monet's masterpiece 'Water Lilies' online can...
The study also found that some participants were more receptive to art than others and were able to benefit more.
Art has the power to change our minds
The results showed significant improvements in mood and anxiety after just a few minutes of viewing of art online by participants.
Art can improve our mindsets. But does this also apply while seeing the artwork on a screen? An international research team led by the University of Vienna, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main chose to study this topic. The findings have now been published as an open-access publication in the journal Computers in Human Behaviour.