Abstract
The aim of the present study was to examine seven case studies and ascertain whether the imagos internalized by students of Fine Arts, a Young Person and an Elderly Person can be reworked, after the students have been submitted to a course in Anatomy. In the present study, we have combined two methods - gathering written responses and drawings - and examined what students know about the organs they drew and used a content analysis grid to evaluate the mental representation of the interior of the body of both profiles (Young Person and Elderly Person), before and after academic training (Anatomy classes). The preliminary data collected provided a prima facie scenario for the existence of at least one sequencial comulative progression in the development of the art students drawings. However further research is needed to establish the extent to which this finding might apply beyond the tasks assigned in the present protocol.
Highlights
Theoretical and conceptual questions have been raised in the scientific literature about the concepts of body schema, body image and the mental representation of the interior of the body
We have combined two methods - gathering written responses and drawings - and examined what students know about the organs they drew and used a content analysis grid to evaluate the mental representation of the interior of the body of both profiles (Young Person and Elderly Person), before and after academic training (Anatomy classes)
According to the results obtained from the content analysis carried out on the 14 drawings that constitute the 7 selected case studies, requested gave origin to two different profiles, the profile of the Young Person and the profile of the Elderly Person, distinguished by particular and antagonistic traits attributed to each pictorial representation
Summary
Theoretical and conceptual questions have been raised in the scientific literature about the concepts of body schema, body image and the mental representation of the interior of the body. Previous studies developed by the Egas Moniz Multidisciplinary Research Center in Health Psychology (Dias, Duque, Neves, Soares, Cardoso, & Carrão, 2006; Dias & Neves, 2016; Dias, Grillo Evangelista, Naben, Ritto & Ferreira, 2019) have used drawings in the Health Education field. One of these studies (Dias, Grillo Evangelista, Naben, Ritto, & Ferreira, 2019) intended to discern how Fine Art’s students mentally represent the inner morphology of the human body of a Young Person and of an Elderly person. The body schema was the same for all individuals, the body image was singularly depicted and linked to each individual’s history, representing a synthesis of his idiosyncratic perceptions, experiences and particularities
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