Research on aesthetic descriptors of art in different languages is scarce. The aim of the present study was to elucidate the conceptual structure of aesthetic experiences of three forms of art (music, visual arts and literature) in the Greek language, which has not been explored so far. It was further aimed to study if biological and cognitive factors such as age and gender might produce differences in art appreciation. A total of 467 younger and older individuals from Greece were asked to generate verbal descriptors (adjectives) in free word-listing conditions in order to collect terms reflecting the aesthetics-related semantic field of art. The capacity of verbal memory was controlled by using a battery of neuropsychological tests. Analysis of generated adjectives’ frequency and salience revealed that ‘beautiful’ was the most prominent descriptor that was selected with a distinctive primacy for all three forms of arts. The primacy of ‘beautiful’ was significantly more pronounced for visual arts relative to music and literature. Although the aging-related decline of verbal capacity was similar for males and females, the primacy of ‘beautiful’ depended on age and gender by being more emphasized for young females than males, and for old males than females. Analysis of secondary descriptors and pairs of adjectives revealed that affective and hedonic experiences are essentially fixed in the semantic field of art reflection. It is concluded that although the concept of the aesthetics seems to be diversified and rich, a clear primacy of beauty is found for the Greek cultural environment and across different forms of art. The results also highlight the presence of complex influences of biological and cognitive factors on aesthetic art experiences.

对不同语言艺术审美描述的研究很少。本研究的目的是阐明希腊语中三种艺术形式（音乐、视觉艺术和文学）的审美体验的概念结构，这是迄今为止尚未探索的。它的进一步目的是研究年龄和性别等生物学和认知因素是否会导致艺术欣赏的差异。共有 467 名来自希腊的年轻人和老年人被要求在自由词表条件下生成语言描述符（形容词），以收集反映与美学相关的艺术语义领域的术语。通过使用一系列神经心理学测试来控制语言记忆的能力。对生成形容词的频率和显着性的分析表明，“美丽”是最突出的描述词，在所有三种艺术形式中都具有独特的首要地位。相对于音乐和文学，视觉艺术的“美丽”的首要地位明显更为明显。尽管男性和女性与衰老相关的语言能力下降相似，但“美丽”的首要地位取决于年龄和性别，年轻女性比男性更强调，老年男性比女性更强调。对次要描述符和形容词对的分析表明，情感和享乐体验本质上是固定在艺术反思的语义领域中的。得出的结论是，虽然美学的概念看似多元化和丰富，在希腊的文化环境和不同的艺术形式中，人们发现了美的明确首要地位。结果还强调了生物学和认知因素对审美艺术体验的复杂影响。