Week 4 Blog Post - Medicine and Art
Medicine, technology, and art are all words that you hear often yet not much together. However, even though they aren’t used much together in a sentence, they are used together all of the time in real life applications. Medicine revolves around the new age of technology and the arts follow this trend.
New technology in the past decade has taken medicine advances to a whole new level: these include X-rays, surgery, prescriptions, etc. X-rays take “pictures” of your skeletal frame, exploiting any broken or fractured pieces. The picture illuminates on a screen a beautiful demonstration of the human body, something that artists have been displaying since forever ago.
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Other medical advances that relate to art are in the field of plastic surgery. Plastic surgery has been around for thousands of years, but it is used a new way in the most recent decades. The human body has been described as a work of art by many, crafted by a supernatural being. Many people undergo expensive surgeries to reshape or reconstruct their bodies in a variety of ways. This exemplifies their idea of the beauty of a human body, making them look like what they want in their own unique way.
Art and technology are often used in the field of medicine, but it also occurs vica versa. Paintings from hundreds of years ago show intricate details of a glorified human, highlighting the eminence of our shape and being. This time of art arose during the Renaissance, where famous artists like Michelangelo painted human figures. An example of this would be The Creation of Adam, a well known painting that is shown below. The Renaissance was known for the new age of humanism in art and technology.
These connections are very interesting to make, and without them being intertwined we would not be the society that we are today.
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Great blog this week! Your writing has definitely helped me to make connections that I have considered as well between art, technology, medicine, and the human body. Our understanding and appreciation of the human body has greatly been reflected in art as you mentioned. I could not agree more. I talked in my blog this week about how important Henry Gray's, "Gray's Anatomy", has been for artists whose ability to accurately create realistic human shapes depends largely on their understanding of anatomy. Plastic surgery also seems to be an artistic idea about being able to artificially make the body as beautiful as possible.
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