What are the similarities between analytical medicine and painting?

The similarity between medicine and art lies in vision: both require not only to observe things, but also to observe them carefully and eagerly, and then extract their essence from complicated facts, clues, colors and other information, grasp the details and open up new ideas.

In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 pneumonia swept across China. We were moved by the medical staff who did not hesitate to choose "retrograde". They put themselves in the most dangerous line and practice the famous saying of Dr. Trudeau, who is regarded as the creed of life by the majority of medical staff: "Sometimes it is a cure; Often help; Always comfort. "

Wearing a white coat and a stethoscope is rigorous and cold, which is the image of medical staff in the eyes of ordinary people. When they take off their white coats, we seldom pay attention to them behind the operating table. In fact, many medical staff are not only superb in medical skills, but also keen on art and live a vivid slash life.

Medical Works of Fu Shan, a Calligrapher in Qing Dynasty

Looking at the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a strange peak stands tall and is called "pedant and heaven". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Fu Shan had extraordinary attainments in painting and calligraphy. At the same time, he is also a gynecologist, known as "Fu Qingzhu Gynecology". Fu Shan's thought of "Ning Zhuo is not clever, rather ugly than flattering, rather scattered than smooth, rather straight than arranged" has influenced many aspects of Xu Beihong's artistic thought.

Turning our eyes back to modern times, Mr. Song Jichang, vice chairman of Shanghai Photographers Association, is a famous expert in head and neck facial features imaging diagnosis. This job endows him with extraordinary perception. His photographic works are all over the world, from human geography to the animal world. 20 19 Mr. Song Jichang's photographic work "Birds on the Silk Road" was exhibited in the Shanghai Museum of Natural History, which was once affiliated to the Royal Society of the British Museum, becoming the first doctor to exhibit his photographic works in a national museum.

Galen, a famous doctor in ancient Rome, once said: "Medicine is not only a profound science, but also a great art." Mastering medical technology will produce a wonderful feeling of art.

The interaction between medicine and art can be traced back to the Renaissance, when science and rationalism just developed. Everyone is eager to know what human nature is, so artists and doctors want to dissect and understand the human body.

Everyone knows that Leonardo da Vinci was a painter and a generalist, but few people know that he made substantial contributions to medicine. He introduced perspective into medical drawing and made many new discoveries in anatomy through anatomy.

Da Vinci manuscript

Looking back at the history of art, there are too many masters who have devoted themselves to medical subjects. Rembrandt's bloody painting "Professor Nicholas Du Pu's Anatomy Class" shows Amsterdam in the17th century, where an avant-garde medical authority is teaching students by dissecting corpses.

A hospital is a place where patients can face pain and misfortune directly. They endure physical pain and mental pain. Hospitals are battlefields for medical staff to cure diseases and save lives. They are tired and annoyed.

When medicine collided with art, generate showed the spark of maintaining health and soothing the soul. Art itself can also be a good medicine, which will quietly change the restless mood of patients and bring hope and strength to patients in the face of pain and misfortune.

Cultivating profound understanding and observation is inseparable from good visual experience and visual environment. Maybe your goal is not to be a doctor or an artist, but a good visual experience plays an important role in observing the value and significance of things and shaping a sound character and heavy temperament.