The Gross Clinic

“The Gross Clinic,” a staple of medical history, represents the raw truth of surgery and the shift in medical practices before the 20th century. Thomas Eakins, the painter of “The Gross Clinic,” was from Philadelphia, and considered it to be his greatest accomplishment as an artist. Surgery was the last option for doctors, not the intricate art that it has evolved into. Dr. Samuel Gross embodied the innovation and advancements in medicine during the year “The Gross Clinic” was created: the changes

The Gross Clinic, by Thomas Eakins HA-314-801 The History of American Art “I never knew of but one artist, and this is Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be rather than what is.” – Walt Whitman Thomas Eakins, was one the most important painters of American Art History. He also was an photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. In this essay, you will explore his life, his works and one of his most famous paintings' which considered shocking by

In The Gross Clinic, the patient is completely covered up and you can only see the patient’s thigh and some parts of the mid-section of the body. Both white cloth covers the entire top half of the patient and much of the surgeon is in close proximity with the patient's body. In the Agnew Clinic, you are allowed to see that the patient is in fact a woman patient and are allowed to see her facial expressions

Thomas Eakins, an American painter, is recognized for his anatomical depictions of men and women in his paintings. In the Romantic era, it was known for artists to illustrate scenes which evoke emotions; however, Eakins’ The Gross Clinic (1875) bluntly portrayed a bloody surgery, which was not received well, due to the fact that few other painting depicted such a vulgar and graphic scene. In the nineteenth century, men were viewed as the rational, reasonable and intellectual beings, superior over

In this essay I will be depicting and comparing two of the most well-known anatomical paintings of all time. The first painting is The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins an oil painting canvas from 1875 drew in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The second painting is The Anatomy Lesson by Rembrandt is also an oil painting canvas but drew in 1632 the Dutch Baroque era. Both paintings depict surgeons at work dissecting features of dead bodies for experimental studies for groups of fellow surgeons and students

The painting is by Thomas Eakins titled The Gross Clinic, the work is seven feet and ten inches by six feet and seven inches, Eakins used oil as his medium. The work is clearly representational since you can understand what the artist is trying to represent. Since the painting was created in 1875 it would fall under realism instead of naturalism, realism is art that shows the real truth of life. It began in 1850 due to people beginning to reject romanticism, prior to 1850 paintings that were similar

Thomas Eakin: The Gross Clinic This painting is brutal in that it leaves you wondering how the patient is doing seeing all the blood, as well as seeing the blood in general it’s intense, and a bit violent to the eye for the woman sitting in the background. There is a lot of highlighting and shadowing to illuminate the focus of the painting and to add an illusion of depth to the classroom. Surgeons had fear in this time period, and they thought of the poor as test or research subjects. The hospital

Introduction: Rembrandt and Eakins 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

In 1875, Thomas Eakins would paint a portrait that he described as “very far better than anything I have ever done.” (232). This portrait became known as The Gross Clink or Portrait of Professor Gross. The clinic is taking place at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. The purpose of this paper is to give an analysis of this painting. Elizabeth Johns’ gives an in-depth look at not only the painting techniques and methods Eakins used but a history of how

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