This weeks topic of medicine and art was an interesting one for me because it related to my life directly. This is especially true for the part in lecture about the x-rays.
Around April, I ended up fracturing my foot and was bed ridden for a few months. One of the only times I did leave the house was to go to the doctor's for x-rays and updates on my foot. The quote that stuck out to me was "I have now seen my death." This resonated with me because
1) At that time it wasn't known that x-rays can cause cancer and
2) This quote is almost more ominous that it seems. To me she meant that seeing her own skeleton was a sign of death and the unnatural.
For me seeing yourself in an x-ray is self-reflexive. It lets you see yourself in a way you've never thought possible, but at the same time, it's almost frightening to see yourself in that way. At your bare bones and core.
The next topic that interests me is plastic surgery. Having interned at a modeling agency, this is a topic that is highly controversial and almost taboo. I think that in terms of art, there has always been an idealistic form of what beauty is and should be. In the 21st century it is usually something similar to what you would see on the show also mentioned, Nip Tuck.
Valeria Lukyanova is known as the human barbie. She had plastic surgery to change her body to look like a barbie doll, which is real life is impossible. I believe that the society we live in today puts too big an emphasis on what people look like and what size they are.
Art does this as well, but not in this drastic of measures by far. Wherever you turn, you view an ad that has been manipulated. Demonstrated by this video below.
Overall science and art marry together nicely when it comes to medicine and art, evidenced by the cadaver portion of the lecture, but I feel where the two fall apart is in the cosmetic area.
http://sandrarose.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/552419_367599903332675_1673698173_n.jpg?42e305
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
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