By interpreting paintings on pots on this hoplite slideshow students are able to gather evidence about hoplite warfare and the forms it took.
The students were divided into five small groups and facilitator presentations, case scenarios, role plays, paintings, and student presentations and activities (such as identifying learning issues from case scenarios and interpreting them using role plays, interpreting paintings and photographs among others) were among the different teaching-learning modalities used.
The 4-hr program covered the subjects of learning to interpret paintings, interpreting paintings relating to medicine, illness and human suffering, the related-topics of humanitarianism and the other humanities fields and values and meaning.
It was subdivided into steps including using stories, histories and images to increase motivation, learning to interpret paintings, interpreting medicine-related paintings, interpreting paintings relating to human suffering and relating to humanitarianism, discussing related-topics in the other humanities fields (such as novels, poems, musicals and films) and discussing the values and meaning.
Joel Katz, a Harvard professor of medicine, has taken this further by devising a course, Training the Eye, to teach medical students to interpret paintings in sessions at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
They interpret paintings on vases and discuss excavations of breweries and similar sites.
Instead of interpreting the paintings as arch commentary, she thought that he was speaking to the company's mission.
There is a catalog for the show, but like many of the catalogs produced here, it is of little help in understanding and interpreting the paintings.
"If you interpret his paintings as lonely or melancholy," Foster said, "that's about you.
Over the course of the evening, you'll discover how to interpret great paintings and sculptures, and appreciate how they've been created.
Harris interprets his paintings sensitively and carefully and here, as elsewhere, is well-served by her publisher's commitment to her work, as images under discussion appear beautifully reproduced on facing pages, allowing one to read and see simultaneously.
