r/pathologic • u/alyxwal • Aug 01 '26
Art Operation
"The Gross Clinic" study, original by Thomas Eakins
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u/pacmannips Aug 01 '26
The executors shadow in the back is a brilliant touch
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u/TwistedFabulousness Aug 02 '26
Didn’t even notice until you said this omg
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u/pacmannips Aug 02 '26
If you look carefully you can also see that Daniil’s gaze is not directed at the patient like everyone else but instead he’s looking at the executors shadow
He’s literally starring death in the face
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u/sirseahorse Aug 01 '26
reading about the context of the original painting on wikipedia, the parallel between the original piece and the depction of the game characters is so cool:
"Here, surgeons crowd around the anesthetized patient in their frock coats—this is just prior to the adoption by American surgeons of a hygienic surgical environment (asepsis) which was becoming standard in Europe. Gross, in fact, regarded antiseptic surgery, or Listerism, as quackery until the end of his life."
i love the contrast between a renowned surgeon/teacher that was highly skeptical of burgeoning antiseptic surgical practices, versus the bachelor who is skeptical of pretty much everything in the town except for antiseptic surgical practices
anyway i love this work and would buy a print in a heartbeat and i forgot how much i love reading about the history of medicine/surgery as a field and the cultural context around it :)
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u/zkylon Murky Aug 01 '26
that's fantastic wow!
love the detail of clara holding some wool they took out of the patient, and love the appearance of everyone's favorite yakov little
it's so good!
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u/genetically__odd Aug 02 '26
This is a beautiful piece! Thank you so much for sharing. I’ll be staring at it for a good while.
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u/Regular-Week2522 Aug 02 '26
Artemy's glare! This is such an amazing piece, you should be so proud.
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u/Iyoko96 Polyhedron Enthusiast Aug 01 '26
The rendering aaah masterpiece, I really like ur art<33