Health Care Fine Art

Appropriate Abstract Art for Hospitals- Your Vote

Composition IV by Wassily Kandinsky,1911, Oil on canvas, 62 7/8 x 98 5/8 in; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Dusseldorf

The use of Abstract Art in Hospitals is controversial.

However, in a poll on this blog a couple weeks ago there was clear support for abstract art.
When answering the question:
"Is abstract art ever appropriate for patient care areas in a HealthCare setting?"
75.9% said Yes

The follow up question is:
Which Abstract Art is appropriate?
Please help by emailing me pictures of the art that you think works.

With the pictures please include the title of the piece and the artist. Other information (date, media, owner, size, etc.) would be welcome but is not required.

Please send me JPG images attached to email.
You can send them to me at henry@henrydomke.com

To see the pictures that people send me, click "continue reading" below:

Poll: Is Abstract Art Ever Appropriate?

One of the more controversial issues in selecting art for healthcare is the issue of selecting Abstract Art. This was covered in a previous post.

But I want to know what you think. Please take a second to complete this poll.

Opinion Polls & Market Research

Survey: What percent of HCD is Evidence-based?

Question:
What percent of the work done by HealthCare Designers is based on solid Evidence-based Research?
A. 0-5%
B. 6-20%
C. 21-50%
D. More then 50%

Please email me your answers.
I will poll people at the HCD07 Conference today and post the results later day.

... later that day (5:30 PM)
The results of the survey are in and I thought I would share them.
Throughout the day I would stop people at the HealthCare Design conference at random and ask them the question you see above. Then I asked what kind of work they did.
Here is what I found:

Facility People tended to answer "C" (21-50% of HealthCare Design is based on solid research)
Interior Designers also tended to answer "C" (21-50% of HealthCare Design is based on solid research)
Architects tended to answer "B" (6-20% of HealthCare Design is based on solid research)
Researchers always answered "A" (0-5% of HealthCare Design is based on solid research)

Since Researchers are the most likely to understand what "sound" or "solid" research is, their answer suggest that:
1. We have a lot of research to do on Evidence-based Design.
2. Many people doing HealthCare Design overestimate how much we already know about Evidence-based Design.