The similarity between medicine and art is vision: both require not only observing things, but observing them carefully and with eagerness, and then distilling their ideas from the intricate intricacies of facts, clues, colors, etc. Essence, grasp the details, and open up your mind.
In the spring of 2020, the new coronavirus pneumonia ravaged the land of China. We were moved by the medical staff who chose to "retrograde" without hesitation. They put themselves on the most dangerous front line and practiced what the majority of medical staff should do. Dr. Trudeau's famous saying, which is regarded as his life creed: "Sometimes it's to heal; often it's to help; always to comfort."
Wearing a white coat and a stethoscope, he is rigorous and cold, which is what ordinary people see. image of medical staff. When they take off their white coats, we rarely pay attention to them behind the operating table. In fact, many medical staff not only have superb medical skills, but they are also passionate about art and live a life of slash.
The medical works of Fu Shan, a calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty
Across the past and present, looking at the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a strange peak stands tall and is known as the "scholarly scholar." Fu Shan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, He has extraordinary attainments in the art of calligraphy and painting. At the same time, he is a gynecologist and is known as "Fu Qingzhu Gynecology". Fu Shan's philosophy of "better clumsy than skillful, ugly rather than flattering, detached rather than slippery, straightforward rather than arranged" has influenced many aspects of Xu Beihong's artistic thought.
Turns our attention back to modern times. Mr. Song Jichang, Vice Chairman of Shanghai Photographers Association, is a famous expert in imaging diagnostics of head and neck facial features. This career has given him an extraordinary sense of perception. His photography ranges from human geography to the animal world, with his footprints all over the world. In 2019, Mr. Song Jichang's photographic work "Birds on the Silk Road" was exhibited at the Shanghai Museum of Natural History, which was once affiliated with the Royal Society of the British Museum, becoming the first doctor to exhibit photographic works in a national museum.
Galen, the famous ancient Roman medical scientist, once said: "Medicine is both a profound science and a great art." The proficiency of medical technology will produce a wonderful feeling of art.
The interaction between medicine and art can be traced back to the Renaissance. At that time, science and rationalism had just developed. Everyone was eager to know what the essence of human beings was, so both artists and doctors wanted to go. Anatomy of the human body and understanding of the human body.
Everyone in the world knows that Leonardo da Vinci was a painter and an all-powerful man, but few people know that he made substantial contributions to medicine. He introduced perspective into medical drawing and made many new anatomical discoveries through dissection.
Da Vinci Manuscript
Looking back at the history of art, there are too many painting masters who were devoted to medical themes. Rembrandt's bloody painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Nicolas Dupu" shows an avant-garde medical authority teaching students in Amsterdam in the 17th century by dissecting corpses.
For patients, the hospital is a place where they face their illness and misfortune. They endure physical pain and emotional suffering. For medical staff, hospitals are battlefields for treating diseases and saving lives. They are exhausted and exhausted.
When medicine and art collide, what emerges is the spark of maintaining health and soothing the soul. Art itself can also be a good medicine. It will quietly change the patient's restless mood and bring hope and strength to the patient when facing pain and misfortune.
Cultivation of profound understanding and observation is inseparable from good visual experience and visual environment. Maybe you don't intend to become a doctor or an artist, but good visual experience plays an important role in understanding the value and meaning of things, and in shaping a sound character and a solid temperament.