Over millennia, humans have depicted a vast spectrum of emotions in art that we can relate to our own experiences and which trigger feelings in us.
Can art help refine our understanding of complex human emotions?

Google Arts & Culture is working with scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, to explore the emotions evoked by artworks through time, and across cultures.

We asked 1,300 people to describe how 1,500 paintings make them feel by choosing from different words. The results revealed 25 different emotions that people linked to the artworks they saw. We plotted these feelings on an interactive map, grouping artworks that triggered specific emotions.

This atlas of emotions will help scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, to advance the scientific study of human emotion.

Explore a complex palette of human emotion, how do the colors, brushstrokes, shapes, and subjects make you feel?