Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins      Thomas Eakins was born on July 25, 1844, in Philadelphia, and with the exception of four years of study in Paris and Spain, the city remained his home. Its school, public and private art collections, and community of artists, many of whom were recent emigrants from Europe trained in the academic tradition and familiar with new artistic styles, provided Eakins with an unusually wide-ranging art education for an American artist of his day.      When

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

Thomas Eakins is a realist, he sees the world for how it is. This painting depicts two ordinary gentlemen playing baseball, the subject matter is represented truthfully and is not exaggerated, there are no supernatural elements represented in the painting. This delineation of a bourgeois commoner is Thomas Eakins way of displaying reality, this is how the traditional person would spend their day, no exaggerations are needed to make the subject matter of the painting interesting. The characters portrayed

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

“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

Final Research Paper Henry Ossawa Tanner is an African-American artist. His works often subvert racial stereotypes and display his experiences as an African-American. The Annunciation (1898) depicts a traditional biblical scene in a modern manner; the painting portrays the well-known scene of Gabriel appearing before Mary to deliver news that she is to be the mother of Christ, however instead of merely accepting this fate she seems to be reluctant. Tanner takes a common biblical subject matter and

how figures of human beings are portrayed through artwork. Both artworks are analyzed to see that how far they are similar and different to each other but still hold true to their own philosophies, ethics and values to create a definite style. Thomas Eakins painting Wrestlers, 1899, oil on canvas, 122.9 × 152.4 cm and Mary Cassatt painting Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child, 1880, oil on canvas, 121.76 × 87.95 × 12.07 cm have been selected to represent a figural concept in American

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

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