An experiment was conducted in which the face-name mnemonic was applied to the task of associating 14 artists' names with two styles of their artwork, portraits and thematic paintings. Following study of the 28 items, mnemonic students outperformed "own best method" control students on both immediate and delayed matching tests. Further,…

Three experiments involving 350 college students were conducted, attempting to validate the phonetic (digit-consonant) mnemonic system as a useful strategy and to apply it to learning artwork. Results supported the use of the system, especially in the combined form for "who" and "when" used in Experiment 3. (SLD)