Emmanuel Kant spoke often about the sublime, and specifically how art becomes more sublime when beauty mixes with terror. Now research provides some support for this philosophical viewpoint.
伊曼紐爾·康德常常談論崇敬，尤其愛談論美與恐懼結合的藝術品如何變得更令人崇敬。如今有一項研究為這項哲學觀點提供了依據。
Scientists had 85 subjects experience one of five different things. One group watched a brief scary movie, another group watched a happy movie, and two other groups performed either 30 or 15 jumping jacks. The control group did nothing.
科學家們讓85名受試者分別體驗了五種事情。一組受試者觀看一部簡短的恐怖電影。另一組觀看一部喜劇片，而其他兩組分別練習跳爆竹，最后一組是對照組，什么也不做。
Then all the subjects looked at four abstract paintings, for 30 seconds each, by a Russian artist, El Lissitsky. And they rated the art—based on qualities of how inspiring, stimulating, rousing, boring, forgetful or uninteresting the piece was for them.
然后讓受試者觀察由俄羅斯藝術家厄爾·利西茨基創作的四幅抽象畫，每幅畫觀看30秒。然后評價每幅畫作的藝術價值——畫作如何帶給自己靈感，如何使人深受啟發，受到激勵，或者如何讓人感到枯燥，無趣。
The group that watched the scary movie rated the art as more sublime and positive than any other of the groups. In fact the other four groups did not significantly differ in their ratings.
相比其他各組，觀看恐怖片的那組成員給出了更多高尚，積極的評價。實際上，其他四組之間沒有明顯的差別。
We might not think of describing art as frightening. The researchers note, however, that art can “…be surprising, elicit goose bumps, and inspire awe.”
我們也許不會將恐懼跟藝術聯系在一起。然而，研究人員解釋道，藝術可以“令人吃驚，讓人起雞皮疙瘩，令人敬畏。”
Who knew that pairing The Walking Dead with a trip to the Museum of Modern Art would make the entire experience more sublime.
誰知道搭配上“行尸走肉”的恐怖場景會不會使現代藝術館之旅更加令人崇敬。
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