It represents for me the concept of death and dying and, particularly, death with dignity. I have thought a lot about this portrait in my first two years of residency.
DYING BEHOLDER ART SERIES
Alice painted a series of portraits focusing on people living in Spanish Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s that highlighted poverty and the lives lived in confined spaces with many people, and T.B. I also learned that the subject of the painting was the 24-year-old brother of Alice Neel’s lover at the time. Later on, I read more about this painting and learned that it appeared on the cover of JAMA in 2005, so it was clearly compelling to more medically minded people than just me. He feels familiar to me and evokes in me the psychological intensity of sickness and dying that we see so often in the hospital. He looks dignified, calm, and resigned to his suffering. He has a crisp-white, cross-shaped bandage that he holds lackadaisically to his chest. The man is propped up shirtless in bed with a dirty sheet covering his lower body, and his protuberant abdomen is in sharp contrast to his sunken eyes and sunken left hemithorax - a consequence of the thoracoplasty used to surgically treat his disease and at the time his fate, consumption. Harlem, which depicts a young man who looks emaciated and depleted. I was most struck by a painting entitled T.B. Alice Neel is a 20th century American portrait artist, known to the art world as a militant feminist for her depiction of female nudes through a woman's gaze, but she also brilliantly depicted Americans from all walks of life, one being sickness. When I moved to New York to start surgical residency - now over a year ago - I went to see an Alice Neel exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members.
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