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The Body in Western ArtAmerican Friends of Augustine College
Gary Swanson, M.DRobert Blume, M.D.
Ross Betts, M.D.
Analytic body - assemblage of parts each seen in their most typical presentation (eye and torso front on; profile nose, head, legs, etc.)
Egyptian Presentation
Greek Poseidon 5th Century B.C.
Raice Warrior, 5th century B.C. Greek
Venus De Milo-100-200 B.C.
The Hellenistic Greek dying Gaul - suffering, actual dying, would not have been depicted by the ancient Greeks
ROMAN_Emperor Trebonianus Gallus found in Rome_251-253 AD_
The Romans began to show people as they are, never mind the ideal
Covered body of Eve -- Romanesque Period 1120 A.D
Strasburg Cathedral !3th Century AD
Note that Clothing obscures bodily contour
Wretchedness and penitence (body as, perhaps, an image of the soul)
Donatello 1462 ADMary Magdalene
Mantegna 1490 ADLamentation Over the Dead Christ
Pathos expressed; medieval elements of form persist
Holbein-The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521)
Grunewald - Altarpiece 1515
LeonardoVitruvian Man
Influence of mathematics on bodily presentation
Bernini 1622Apollo and Daphne
Bernini 1622Close up Daphne
Canova 1804Perseus with Head of Medusa
Back to the Future?
Eakins- The Crucifixion (1880)
Eakins- Boy in Artelier
Mary Cassatt 1844-1926
Van Gogh 1885Skull of Skeleton With Burning Cigarette
Nude Descending a Staircase Duchamp 1926
Body as Mechanism
Picasso 1907 Desmoiselles d’Avignon
Fracturing and dislocation of the Body
Kahn –Germany 1920s
Body as machine
Bacon 1969Study of a Nude with a figure in a Mirror
Lucien Freud 1987 Girl on a Bed
Medical TopicsRembrandt The Anatomy Lesson
Medical TopicsThomas Eakins-
The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic
Medical TopicsEdvard Munch (1902)-Self Portrait on the Operating Table
Bodies: The Exhibition
Ron Mueck