Monday, September 8, 2008

The Gross Clinic - Thomas Eakins, oil on canvas, 1875


"One of the most powerful, horrible, yet fascinating pictures that has been painted anywhere in this century...but the more one praises it, the more one must condemn its admission to a gallery where men and women of weak nerves must be compelled to look at it, for not to look at it is impossible." 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gross_Clinic