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