This study investigates whether the relationship between prototypicality and preference of paintings differs across styles using Gogh's and Gauguin's paintings. Data analyses show that affective evaluation of paintings has dimensions "Nervosity", "Individuality" and "Preference". Regarding the acquired Gogh style, nervosity correlates positively with prototypicality and negatively with preference, implying that nervosity may bridge a spurious prototypicality-preference relationship. Regarding the acquired Gauguin style, neither nervosity-prototypicality nor prototypicality-preference correlation exists. The results suggest that, in different styles, different prototypicality-preference correlations will be detected due to different underlying mechanisms.