Question

In his painting, ____, Thomas Eakins portrayed things as he saw them and not as the public might want them portrayed. (A) Three Women in a Village Church (B) The Thankful Poor (C) The Gross Clinic (D) Beata Beatrix

Answer 1

C) The Gross Clinic.

Step-by-step explanation:

Thomas Eakins' oil on canvas painting of "The Gross Clinic" , 1875 shows the reality of everyday human life and not as how we wish to view them. This painting shows Dr. Samuel D. Gross in action, with a live operation happening and at the same time, Gross teaching to the students about the procedure.

On the left side of the picture is a women recoiling in horror/disgust, presumably the patient's mother unable to bear the suffering of her child. This painting portrayed things as real as they are/can be, exactly how the painter sees them and not as how the public might want to portray it. The setting of this scene was the Jefferson Medical College, where Dr. Gross was a surgeon and also a professor of academic trauma.