Pathography
You are probably surprised to have a medical doctor addressing your art history class today. Professor Smith asked me to speak to you about my special interest-- pathography.
Pathography, a relatively new field, involves the relationship between disease and creative work. It helps explain why artists worked as they did. For instance, the softening of color and diffusion of form in Monet's paintings are probably related to the way his vision was blurred by cataracts in his eyes. As might be expected in the cataract case, the effect is strongest in the Monet's later paintings. Klee's later paintings show a constriction of space that parallels the tightening of his skin. The typically broad brush strokes in Dufy's later paintings are probably due to his arthritis. Monet's cataracts, Klee's scleroderma, Dufy's arthritis all illustrate how disease affects creative work.
Pathography also contributes to medical knowledge. Rheumatoid arthritis was first described in the 19th century, even though other forms of arthritis appeared in dinosaur fossils. Some specialists thus guess that the disease, whose cause is unknown, was related to industrialization. But in portraits painted by the 17th century artist Rubens, several subjects clearly have hands twisted by rheumatoid arthritis.
I believe that pathography will continue to interest students of art history like yourselves, and physicians like me.
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