Autopsy Through Painting

Law enforcement agencies have relied on forensic art as one of their investigation methods for many years. The job of a forensic artist is quite difficult because he or she must reconstruct an image of an individual based on just hearsay and memory from another individual. The purpose of this study is to research forensic artists, also known as sketch artists, and their ability to draw up a suspect through the information provided by a witness. Interviews on two different forensic artists provide insight of the duties and hardships a law enforcement sketch artist takes on. The process of how law enforcement sketch artists are able to recreate the face of another individual, and how that picture can be a very useful piece of evidence for crime reports will also be addressed throughout the study. This study is relevant to anthropology because it touches on how how an individual perceives those around them and forensics itself is also one of the key topics discussed in biological anthropology.

In his documentary, How art made the world, Dr. Nigel Spivey first introduces the audience to the world of art to two major topics in the field of study: Storytelling and the art of human imitation. In the case of both topics, he travels around the word to sites of historical significance in search of ancient artifacts, which he compares with their modern day equivalents, looking for differences and similarities that he hopes will help to unlock the secrets of mankind. However, despite the fact that he is looking to the past for clues, he is not quick to dismiss the potential of understanding the present times for a greater understanding of the human race as well. Additionally, in many cases, he also enlists professional help from reputable people in his field of study (Historians, Film-makers, and the like) to aid him in his quest.

The similarities, and differences, between Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn’s Anatomy of Dr. Tulp (1632) and Thomas Eakins’ The Agnew Clinic (1889) are both uncanny and unprecedented. Painted in 1630’s Amsterdam during the Dutch Baroque period, Rembrandt sought to preserve the rare occasion in which a real human body was used as an academic tool in order to prove anatomy theories. On the contrary, Eakins piece was painted in 19th century America during the realist movement to memorialize a retiring professor. However, it is their similarities that make them comparable; they were both commissioned by academic institutions, they both depict a surgery in progress, they both celebrate the careers of notable

Art by its nature is a subject of the philosophical, social, economic, political or religious context surrounding its creator. More often than not, a work of art addresses a specific topic or somewhat revolves around a particular person. Therefore, it is impossible to separate the context of a piece of painting, either historical or cultural, to its intrinsic value or the artwork's meaning. On the other hand, different cultures and time utilized specific conventions that govern the representation of objects of creativity. This essay highlights various pieces of art and their relationship to particular cultural, political, economic, or social settings. Moreover, it pinpoints how different times influence art presentation.

In Fred Kleiner’s Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, he has listed some of the oldest and most ancient works of art discovered from different archeological site, which were later transferred to various museums. As we delve deeper into the chapters, we discover how art forms evolve across different time lines – from the art of the Paleolithic period to the arts of the near-East and Egypt. The works of art across the different timelines also indicate the kind of culture people have, because such culture can be seen in how they present their arts. Therefore, there is a clear development that is happening back then, because of the evolution of the arts and the presentation of the artists based on their culture. Taking everything into consideration, this project aims to discuss how arts develop throughout the different timelines – the Paleolithic period and the Ancient near-East and Egypt – and how such art forms present the cultural context of the artists.

The Museum of Fine Arts, located in St. Petersburg, Florida holds a variety of artworks that depict a specific period in human development and cultural aspects. The variety was very helpful and the process to narrow down the search of a painting of my choice became less difficult. The painting that I choose was made by an American artist named Stuart Davis Untitled (Black and White Variation on Windshield Mirror). Davis’s painting was extremely peculiar and I wanted to further examine its properties. The Untitled has three characteristics that are unique: Davis’s background for creating the painting, understanding the types of lines used, and the choice of color schemes.

The artwork that I would like to discuss is Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken, an oil painting done in the 1490s by Josse Lieferinxe a South Netherlands artist. ("Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken.") I went to the Walter Art Museum and this image hidden it was in the third floor in the corner. As for the comparison I decided to choose the right, Saint Sebastian and the Bishop Saint, and for the third artwork that we had discussed in class that I’d like to discuss is the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch. The main image is Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken. However what these artworks have in common is that they have a lot of movement and have the same religion. Also each artwork conveys different the messages and they have a different function.

Painting in the Golden Age Religion gives humans the feeling of having a purpose, and it assuages overwhelming fears, like that of mortality. On the other hand, art has the ability to take fears that are hard to describe in words and create a picture that transforms these feelings or solutions into

Gericault who had high status as an artist had gathered positive press from the Raft of Medusa which morbidly focused on anatomical studies of emaciated bodies of death and decapitation. Science was very much challenging religious doctrine and people in the early 19th century were more open and curious with analysis of the function of organs and limbs. Gericault himself visited a hospital near a studio to "observe all phases of suffering from seizures. physiognomies, to final agony" (Eitner 245). According to Eitner, a horse riding accident created an abscess that formed on his back. This caused a decrease in his conventional Romantic history paintings, to an increase in small scale portraits. It was the final two years before his death where

One of the best-known paintings by Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), The Gross Clinic, captures a surgical operation, a subject considered inappropriate at the time. Eakins lost an academic position because he used nude models in mixed classes.

Good paintings not only create an opportunity for viewers to appreciate beauty, but are good tools to convey values and influence viewers to do something that is really beneficial. Edward Hopper’s “Compartment C” was created in 1938, and Irving Wiles’ “Woman Reading on a Bench” was created in 1899. Both paintings show a woman sitting in a chair reading a book, but the composition, body language and color used in them are quite different with each other.

Human expression provides a mechanism by which human behaviour can be studied by the historian, and in aesthetic expression such as art, the historian can study the beliefs which influence human behaviour. Within the alleged 'Golden Age' of the Dutch Republic can be found a diverse mixture of paintings, and sources 1-3 show three different genres in particular: landscape, portrait and still life. Provided that the limitations of making generalisations over these paintings are

Creating art is one of the single defining factors that set humans apart from animal species. Through art, humans are able to express their innermost ideas and feelings, without having the difficulty of trying to find the correct words to accurately describe their thought processes. Works of art can help us to understand the people who have come before us. This is evidenced by the knowledge humans have discovered of prehistoric men and their symbolic cave paintings. The expression, style, and meaning vary and archaeologists put in much effort to uncover these works.

Throughout the vast history of art, historians can find connections throughout the centuries. Artists from the beginning of humankind have been inspired by the world around them. From the Apollo 11 stones to present day, history and culture have provided inspiration and have been the focus of various pieces. Examining artwork from the 15th-18th century, viewers can be shown a whole world that would be unknown to us without these artist’s contributions. History, religion, and cultural events have sculpted the art world, and we can observe this through many pieces during the 15th-18th centuries.

For over two thousand years, various philosophers have questioned the influence of art in our society. They have used abstract reasoning, human emotions, and logic to go beyond this world in the search for answers about arts' existence. For philosophers, art was not viewed for its own beauty, but rather for the question of how art and artists can help make our society more stable for the next generation. Plato, a Greek philosopher who lived during 420-348 B.C. in Athens, and Aristotle, Plato’s student who argued against his beliefs, have no exceptions to the steps they had to take in order to understand the purpose of art and artists. Though these two philosophers made marvelous discoveries about the existence of art, artists, and