thefirstprinciple asked: I like how well the portraits in the middle fit with the symptoms--the tired hypothyroid woman vs the somewhat nervous-looking hyperthyroid lady. How do you come up with the portrait that ties together the card? Are the portraits based on other paintings you've seen? Good luck with the project!
One of my goals with this project is to build a bridge between art/art history and medicine. (To put a little poetry into the material) After spending over 10 years making art and studying art history, I couldn’t help but see paintings matching up with the medical information. There is a real poetry to the medical content. So I began searching for artwork that would portray the feeling that the signs and symptoms described. I’ve bought so many art books over the years, I started cutting out images and have been using 5-10 nursing and medical textbooks to gather as much info to go with the art.
I’m trying to find images that empathize with the diagnoses. So if I had one of these illnesses I would contect with the art. All the drawings are based on paintings.
(I’ll finish posting the artists and titles soon)
I thought the content would “stick” in the mind better with an image that has been around for a while, related to the material, and something that’s already in our visual vocabulary.(even if few people have seen the art before)
That’s the ideal, but some are a bit random. I just liked the art and thought it would be an interesting enough match.
~Thanks for the feed back:) and letting me rant:)
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