info:eu-repo/semantics/article eng Key words: portrait, orientation, inversion, gender, activity. All rights reserved The Factors of the Lateral Orientation of Portraits application/pdf 475889 bytes https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:33937 doi:10.22190/FUPSPH2101013P cobiss:79239177 ISSN: 1820-8495 2021 Facta Universitatis vol. 20 br. 1 str. 13-24 Škorc, Bojana Pejić, Biljana S. Abstract: This paper analyses the portraits` aesthetic experience from side perspectives, including left and right orientation. Research was conducted by performing two experiments. he first experiment included 40 participants, the second had 26 participants of both genders who were not trained in the field of fine arts. The stimuli were 12 reproductions of portraits, profile orientation, of models made by famous painters. All the portraits represented adult persons, of different genders (male or female), spatial orientation (left or right) of the model and form (original or inverted). The participants assessed the presented portraits without time limitation on six scales, which measured two dimensions of aesthetic experience: evaluation and activity...