MENARD ART MUSEUM
and Nippon MENARD Cosmetics Co.,
Ltd
had clarified that art appreciation at MENARD
ART MUSEUM lowers psychological and physiological stress
and presented the results at The Japanese Association
of Health Psychology on 3rd and 4th of November, 2001.
In today's society with lots of stress, 'healing'
plays a very important role and various healing methods
are being proposed recently. Visitors always praise
MENARD ART MUSEUM, "Whenever I come here, I feel
relaxed." "The atmosphere of this museum
calms down my mind." "I feel totally refreshed."
"I like the moderate space and the number of
works displayed here." So we measured the healing
effect of MENARD museum.
We asked visitors to be monitors in three different
exhibitions hold in 2001.
1 MARC
CHAGALL Lithographs: 94pcs of Chagall's
lithographs that expressed love and dream with vivid
colors.
2 Women
lived in Paris: 71pcs of landscapes of Paris
and women lived in Paris. (PICASSO, MATISSE, LAUTREC,
SAEKI Yuzo and FUJITA Tsuguharu etc.)
3 The
secret of great pictures 3~Japanese Style Paintings
and Applied Arts~: 71pcs of works that show
the techniques and expressions of Japanese Style Paintings
and Applied Arts. (OGATA Korin, YOKOYAMA Taikan, YASUDA
Yukihiko, TOMIMOTO Kenkichi and KURODA Tatsuaki etc.)
| |
Date |
Number
of monitors |
Measuring
method |
| 1 |
2001/
3/ 9~15 |
43 |
A |
| 2 |
2001/
6/12~17 |
30 |
A |
| 3 |
2001/
7/ 6~21 |
31 |
A/B |
A. Measurement of
salivary cortisol, a stress hormone.
We took samples of the saliva from visitors and measured
them before and after the appreciation of exhibition.
B. Psychological questionnaire
We asked the visitors to complete the evaluation form
before and after the appreciation. The measuring method
is to evaluate their multiple moods (depression, boredom,
hostility, well-being, liveliness, concentration and
friendliness ) on a scale of one to four. We also
asked them to state their degree of stress, mental
burden and physical burden.
A. Measure of salivary
cortisol, a stress hormone.
The salivary cortisol decreased after the appreciation
in every exhibition. This means
that the stress was relieved.
B. Psychological questionnaire
The degree of mental stress and negative mood (depression,
boredom, hostility) became low. This
means that they were psychologically healed.
The healing effect was found regardless
of age or sex, particularly in women and those
who are less than 40 years old.
The physiological index
| Exhibition |
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
total |
| Age |
10's |
4 |
|
2 |
6 |
| 20's |
7 |
5 |
2 |
14 |
| 30's |
17 |
7 |
8 |
32 |
| 40's |
4 |
5 |
3 |
12 |
| 50's |
9 |
4 |
12 |
25 |
| 60's |
1 |
8 |
2 |
11 |
| 70's |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
| Sex |
M |
19 |
12 |
13 |
44 |
|
F |
24 |
18 |
18 |
60 |
| Times of visit |
First |
22 |
15 |
15 |
52 |
| 2-3times |
11 |
9 |
7 |
27 |
| 4 times or more |
10 |
6 |
9 |
25 |
| Before the appreciation |
3.96 |
3.59 |
4.00 |
|
| After the appreciation |
3.18 |
2.80 |
3.10 |
| Increase |
9 |
7 |
4 |
| Same |
4 |
4 |
1 |
| Decrease |
30 |
19 |
26 |
| * Paired T |
<0.01 |
<0.01 |
<0.01 |
* Paired T : The
figure of difference of a monitor before and after
the appreciation. We can say it is apparently effective
when the figure is less than 0.05.
The psychological index
<The result of the multiple mood scale>
With the calm atmosphere, the art appreciation at
MENARD ART MUSEUM physiologically and psychologically
heals visitors.
l This experiment does not aim to evaluate each work's
healing effect. Some arts can be called as 'healing
arts' such as the pictures of HIGASHIYAMA Kaii and
MATISSE but some are not. The results of this experiment
are not necessarily applicable for any other museums.
This was the first time to measure
the healing effect at a museum in Japan and also very
rare in overseas.
*MENARD Cosmetic Co., Ltd. has
proved and presented the healing effect of makeup
with the evaluation like this. |
