Visual Analysis Of The Gross Clinic By Thomas Eakins

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In the picture The Gross clinic by Thomas Eakins there are a lot of people in a dark room that are looking at a group of people that are working on a body. The people in the audience that are looks down to see the group of guy that are working on the a body. Some of th people the people look like they are not itrested in what is happening. there is one person at the bottom that is taking notes on sheets of paper. the fauther you look the audience gose up the people seem to get less interested and are going to sleep. There is a person at the bottom that is covering there face and is not looking at the surgery like the others. In the middle of the picture there are people doing surgery while the others are watching. The picture is very idealized …show more content…
In most of the picture he uses a lot of black and white but uses the bright red as the blood to catch the eye. Dr.Gross is not in the same color sute that all the other people in the room are in, making him different and making him stand out in the room with the others. The hair of Dr.Gross that he has is white and bright in the light unlike the people in the room .The lines in the picture are actual and are very persice. There is light present in the picture it as no sorce it dosent give off any shadow off any of the people. The light shines of the heads of the people that are doing the surgery and is shines of the forhead of Dr.Gross making him look exaggerated. The affects of depth is shown in the picture in the background. The farther you go back in the picture the people get more blurry and are starting to disappear into the darkness. At the front the people are very graphic and have very good detail in their faces and in the thing they have on. In the tunnal the people are very blurry and are just like the people that are up in the seats. When Eakins was painting the picture you can dee all of the strokes that he took. The brushstrokes are very precise. The painting is actual and it makes the secan of the painting even darker then it

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