Does Going To An Art Gallery Make You Less Stressed? | Letters

“The investigation intelligibly shows nan stress-reducing properties of viewing original art,” says Dr Tony Wood of King’s College London (Picture of health: going to creation galleries tin amended wellbeing, study reveals, 28 October). I conflict this mentation arsenic nan study was intelligibly not designed to let for nan stress-reducing differential betwixt nan environments successful which participants viewed original artworks aliases copies of them.

Elimination of this facet would person required study of bosom rate, tegument somesthesia and saliva successful 2 further groups: 1 viewing original artworks successful a non-gallery situation and nan 2nd viewing copies of nan aforesaid paintings astatine nan Courtauld Gallery. Without these controls, nan study does not show if accent factors are reduced by viewing original artworks, aliases by nan ambience of an creation gallery.
Peter Lowe
Newcastle upon Tyne

My bully friend Douglas and I are surviving impervious that creation assemblage visits tin do you good, though nan java and bacon rolls beforehand and nan mates of pints afterwards should besides beryllium taken into consideration.
Alex Dickie
Edinburgh