The art of observation

In this issue, students and professors explore the paintings from The Bader Collection on display at the exhibition Singular Figures: Portraits and Character Studies in Northern Baroque Painting.

The average viewer in a gallery looks at a painting for about seven seconds. In a workshop pioneered for occupational therapy students at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, participants study each painting for 10 minutes. Using only visual evidence, they test their observational skills and then examine their biases. it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s all part of a strategy to prepare them to assess clinical situations in the workplace.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Art is such a good vehicle for developing observational skills,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Pat Sullivan, the public programs manager for the . She has conducted the workshop in collaboration with Danielle Naumann, an occupational therapist and PhD student in Rehabilitation Science, for the last few years. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�When you take a few moments to sit and look carefully at a painting you haven카지노 게임 컬렉션�t seen before, you pick up a lot more than you would imagine.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

We invited three students who hadn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t been into the gallery before to participate in a mini-workshop with Sullivan and Naumann. They studied Portrait of Five Sisters (Jan Albertsz. Rootius, c.1655), and practised articulating their objective observations of the painting.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I see sadness.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

카지노 게임 컬렉션�You카지노 게임 컬렉션�re interpreting sadness,카지노 게임 컬렉션� coaches Naumann. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�But what you actually see are faces that are not smiling.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Now the observations come more quickly.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I see bags under the girl카지노 게임 컬렉션�s eyes.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Their faces are wrinkled in a way.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I see a girl wearing a gold bracelet.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I see the beads on her dress.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

After taking inventory of what they see in the painting, the students then change from 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I see카지노 게임 컬렉션� statements to 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I think카지노 게임 컬렉션� statements.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I think they aren카지노 게임 컬렉션�t smiling because it takes more muscles to smile than to maintain a neutral expression,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says engineering student Tanis Worthy, thinking about how long the children would have had to stay still for a portrait session.

The students explore their own reactions and interpretations, gain insight into other perspectives and, in doing so, broaden their own.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�This is an invaluable tool for occupational therapists and others who make clinical decisions in groups,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Naumann.