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Medical art - a brief general overview, and its development in South Africa


Pieter van der Bijl

Abstract

Medical art is an amalgamation of science and art and is a descriptive term for the work of artists whose subject is medicine, or a biomedical science. It can be very realistic and anatomatically correct, thematical, interpretive or even conceptual. Medical art is often referred to as medical illustration. The latter term is more commonly used than the former, but I prefer the term medical art since it is more descriptive and encompasses objects of art other than sketches


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