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“THE SHERLOCK HOLMES STRATEGY”
MYSTERY PAINTING – STEP 5
This is a picture by the American painter Edward Hopper
(1882-1967).
The title is Conference at night.(*)
It’s not much to confirm or reject your hypotheses and predictions,
is it? But that’s the evocative power of a work of art …
In this game you’ve used what we
called the “Sherlock Holmes strategy” – the ability to build
hypotheses and predictions based
on evidence; or, put it in another way, the ability to use
one’s own general knowledge and personal
experiences to interpret and make sense of particular facts
and situations. You gradually verify, keep, reject or adjust your
interpretations and predictions on the basis of new clues which are made
available to you. This strategy is based on inferential and deductive processes,
and is closely associated with methods of scientific investigation.
If
you like, look at other examples of the “Sherlock Holmes strategy” -
click here!
(*) Oil painting (70.5 x 101.6 cm) -1949 - Roland P.
Murdock Collection, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, USA.
Edward Hopper gained an early reputation with his etchings. His realistic paintings of streets and houses, often without figures, have an atmosphere of loneliness and an almost menacing starkness. (The Penguin Concise Columbia Encyclopedia)
