I found this week’s material on the relationship between medical technologies and art very enlightening. A lot of people do not realize art and medical technologies have been directly correlated for centuries, dating back to before Leonardo Da Vinci. Artists would base their artwork off of actual human body parts and would even watch doctors during surgeries to understand the human anatomy.
I believe one of the more fascinating technological innovations that has had a huge impact on art is the X-ray machine. X-rays allow us to see the full skeletal structure of any living organism. This opened brand new possibilities for artists to accurately depict their work and make it even more life-like.
I was intrigued by how plastic surgery are both related to medicine and art. Either people are looking to repair their body because of an injury or they want to “better themselves”, people want their surgery to look as natural and realistic as possible. This is not an easy task for doctors to make life-like changes to a person’s body, and they sometimes call in artists to help out.
Living right next to Beverly Hills, I constantly see plastic surgery all around me, and I am going to appreciate it more now because I understand the difficulty of good plastic surgery. I have gained a lot of new insight by looking over this week’s materials because there is a stigma in our society that art and medicine are two different fields. By looking closely, though, we can see medicine and art are seen together all around us.
Sources:
Laramee, Eve Andree. "No Title." Eve Andree Laramee. N.p., 18 Aug. 2016. Web. 30 Apr. 2017. <http://home.earthlink.net/~wander/>.
Luxereau, Christophe. "HOME." Christophe Luxereau Website : Home. Christophe Luxereau, 30 Nov. 2016. Web. 30 Apr. 2017. <http://www.luxereau.com/>.
Medicine Pt1. Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 30 Apr. 2017. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk>.
Medicine Pt3. Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 22 Apr. 2012. Web. 30 Apr. 2017. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIX-9mXd3Y4>.
Staines, Judith. "A Unique Online Source on Contemporary International Artists." Zoran Todorovic Artist Portrait. Culture Base, 14 May 2003. Web. 30 Apr. 2017. <http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?188>.
I really found your comments about plastic surgery interesting. While the stuff that's being put into someone's body, the silicon, is completely unnatural, we as people still want it to look as if there had never been a surgery done. It's almost as if people are pensive about admitting their desire to better their physical appearance.
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