<P> Both experts and novices tend to judge original abstract works as more optimally balanced than experimental variations, without necessarily identifying the original . There appears to be an intuitive sense for experts and non-experts alike that a given representational painting is the original . Participants tend to deem original artwork as original versus the manipulated works that had been both subtly and obviously altered with respect to the balance of the painting . This suggests some innate knowledge, perhaps not influenced by artistic expertise, of the rightness of a painting in its balance . Both masters and novices are equally susceptible to shifts in balance affecting preference for paintings, which may suggest that both artists viewers have an intuitive sense of balance in art . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article relies too much on references to primary sources . Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . (December 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article relies too much on references to primary sources . Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . (December 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Psychologists have found that a person's level of expertise in art influences how they perceive, analyze, and interact with art . To test psychologically, scales have been designed to test experience rather than just years of expertise by testing recognition and knowledge of artists in a number of fields, fluid intelligence, and personality with the Big Five factor inventory . These found that people with high art expertise were not significantly smarter, nor had a college major in the arts . Instead, openness to experience, one of the Big Five factors, predicted someone's expertise in art . </P>

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