Overall though, adults, in contrast to the younger visitors, seemed better able to integrate information from the exhibition and reject intuitive explanations.
Consequently, the exhibition developers strove to eliminate any intuitive language from the explanatory labels; even so, adult visitors not only continued to use need-based language but increased their use following the gallery visit.
Using pre- and post-measures, we assessed how visitors' causal explanations about biological change, drawn from three reasoning patterns (evolutionary, intuitive, and creationist), were modified as a result of visiting the exhibition.
The Art Gallery of Hamilton hopes this exhibition will "appeal to the viewer's psychological and intuitive senses, or memory... promoting visual and aural awareness and engagement".
The authors rigorously investigated how visitors' causal explanations about biological change, drawn from three reasoning patterns (evolutionary, intuitive, and creationist), were modified as a result of visiting an evolution exhibition.
The organization's founder, artist and intuitive Eliza Swann, has modeled it after the Garden of Eden, only with tarot-framed artist intensives, lectures, exhibitions, and performances designed to reunite creativity with spirituality.
"German Expressionists, especially those in the Blue Rider, tried to convey the inner rhythm of the spirit in an intuitive way through visual art," said Tawney Becker, a curatorial assistant at the Busch-Reisinger who helped design the Blue Rider exhibition.
New Guild Members exhibition.
