Comments on: Art Review: An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing “The Gross Clinic” Anew http://calitreview.com/10723 An arts and culture magazine. Mon, 21 May 2012 14:28:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lorrie Tabarhttp://calitreview.com/10723/comment-page-1#comment-105564 Lorrie Tabar Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:38:20 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=10723#comment-105564 This is an excellent review, very informative and rather passionate in tone. Thank you, Mr. Voves, for sharing with us both your intelligence and your obvious reverence for fine art. I have a new appreciation for Mr. Eakins who, I believe, challenged our humanity through these mysterious and macbre medical characters. His treatment of the onlookers in both paintings is eerie and captivating. This is an excellent review, very informative and rather passionate in tone. Thank you, Mr. Voves, for sharing with us both your intelligence and your obvious reverence for fine art. I have a new appreciation for Mr. Eakins who, I believe, challenged our humanity through these mysterious and macbre medical characters. His treatment of the onlookers in both paintings is eerie and captivating.

]]> By: Annehttp://calitreview.com/10723/comment-page-1#comment-104469 Anne Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:56:00 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=10723#comment-104469 Fantastic review, I learned alot. Like why Dr. Gross was so reverend and his importance to medicine. One cringes like the woman in the painting at the thought of civil war medicine <i>without</i> his book! Thank you Dr. Gross! I didn't know the The Agnew Clinic was depicting a mastectomy. That explains the sensitive portrait of pity on the nurse's face. The cringing female of The Gross Clinic has been transformed , just like the first paintings street clothes were exchanged for scrubs...transformed but still there. I think in both cases, Eakins was honoring compassion and asserting it needs to be at the operating table along with the scalpels and exciting techniques . Fantastic review, I learned alot. Like why Dr. Gross was so reverend and his importance to medicine. One cringes like the woman in the painting at the thought of civil war medicine without his book! Thank you Dr. Gross!

I didn’t know the The Agnew Clinic was depicting a mastectomy. That explains the sensitive portrait of pity on the nurse’s face. The cringing female of The Gross Clinic has been transformed , just like the first paintings street clothes were exchanged for scrubs…transformed but still there. I think in both cases, Eakins was honoring compassion and asserting it needs to be at the operating table along with the scalpels and exciting techniques .

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