Menonday Art Vibe; Haunting
The final one from last year's visit to the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, and one of my top ten... the blurb on the gallery write-up tells you something of the artist's intention here, but your eyes will also bring you to the conclusion that these guys, amazing as their work is, must carry a burden...
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That is an amazing painting with insight into the surgeons' work and hopes.
ReplyDeleteAmazing painting, Glad to read about Three Oncologists, Great.
ReplyDeleteWhoa, I would love to meet those docs...they look sad and burdened by the heaviness of the work they are doing. Having had my own experiences with two oncologists...I know that burden too well...
ReplyDeleteYes, Yam, you have brought a very poignant paianting here. Three men who are healers and yet face death constantly. They are standing in an uneasy space where science meets mortality. And the artist has conveyed the idea rather menacingly.
ReplyDeletemy instant reaction was a terrible sadness, they appear bent with the burden of sadness. I just read that veterinarians retire after very short careers because of the sadness and hurt they deal with every day, and I am thinking oncologist are the same. our dermatologist, was a trauma eye surgeon. she said after years of doing it, she could not handle it anymore and went into removing skin cancers because it was once/twice and done and did not keep her awake at night.
ReplyDeleteA haunting image with great meaning. Very profound, but not the kind of painting you’d hang in the dining room while you nibble on canapés and sip prosecco.
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteIt is a great painting, I like thinking these doctors are bringing patients back from the darkness of cancer.
Take care, enjoy your day and happy 1st week of March.
Wonderful painting made all the more beautiful by Currie's words.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful gift to be able to help people
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Cecilia
Haunting is the perfect way to describe it and it is a beautiful painting.
ReplyDeleteA very different portrait from what you've shown so far. Oncologists sure do carry a burden when they do their work and it shows on the faces of these doctors.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a wonderful depiction of what must be a very rough professional choice.
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