Can anybody identify this drawing? I was putting together a PowerPoint presentation on the subject of opiate abuse by medical professionals, and I needed a graphic to use as a metaphor for ‘pain’. So I typed the word ‘pain’ into Google images, and found this on the second page. It sort of struck my fancy, and looked “medicalish” in sort of an ‘ancient Greek-like look’ = ‘Hippocrates’ = ‘medicine’ sort of way. So I used it. Somebody told me that they found it “grotesque,” and suggested that it belittled chemically impaired professionals and trivialized my presentation. I wanted to counter his objections, but since I didn’t know what it was, I couldn’t quite find the right words. Anybody have any idea what it is?
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He looks Classical Greek, but I think the drawing itself is modern, perhaps even an illustration of a statue. It is probably a scan from an Art book.
It looks very much like a sketch of the head of Laocoon from the Statue of Laocoon and His Sons that is on display in the Vatican, but it may be from something different.
It looks to me like a sketch of Laocoön.
Aha! found another page, with the actual sketch: Laocoon and the expression of pain (about two-thirds of the way down the page).
So the subject is in excruciating pain because he is fighting a monster which is slowly strangling him to death, and is killing his family at the same time—remarkable. Perfect metaphors like that don’t just fall into your lap every day. You guys (and by that I mean the entire Dope collectively) never cease to amaze me. A heartfelt thanks to both of you.
I got to see the statue in person several years ago when I toured Europe. Of all the renowned works of art that I saw, this one impressed me the most. The story depicted, the aesthetics of the sculpture, the emotional response it invokes, and the history of the sculpture itself really make it a fascinating work.
Can anyone make out the faint text in the background of the sketch? Is it a subliminal pain trigger?
I would think that it is merely the text from the other side of the page in whatever book the image was scanned from. The paper wasn’t thick enough to prevent the scanner from picking up that extra information.
Some images depicting pain:
dolor.jpg (image)
dolor.jpg (image)
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http://www.esmas.com/salud/enfermedades/v5/343543.html
http://plantamedicinales.net/category/dolor-de-cabeza
I wouldn’t bother. Someone looking for an excuse to take offense would find reasons to complain about the colors of your fonts.
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/biomed/his/painexhibit/panel3.htm
“Facial expression of pain drawn
by Sir Charles Bell (From:
The Anatomy and Philosophy
of Expression: as Connected
with the Fine Arts. 5th ed.
London : Henry G. Bohn, 1865)”
Good find! I spent a while searching but with no luck. How did you find it?
What did they mean by “chemically impaired professionals”, and how did they think that this picture belittled them?
Tineye.com (free account required). You can upload an image or provide a link and it will search for other pages that contain that image. The only english link was to http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/painexhibit/ , which is a dead link, but searching for “UCLA pain exhibit” found the site I posted.
The Rolling Stones.
The presentation was on Opiate Abuse by Medical Professionals. In other words junkie Doctors.
:smack: Next time I’ll read for comprehension.
Thanks for the useful link.
No prob. There is also a firefox extension to right click on an image and search for it on tineye.