"Gloomy" Art Won't Inspire Action on Climate Change, New Study Suggests

A new study by the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts claims that "gloomy and dystopian" artworks necessarily don't inspire action on climate change, as reported by Artnet. The latest report centers upon the ArtCOP21 climate change festival in Paris back in 2015, having analyzed the emotional reactions of 874 attendees of the 37 works on view. Based on the audience responses, researchers divided the works into four different categories: "the comforting utopia," "the challenging dy...