Gabriel mile douard Nicolet(Swiss, 1856-1921) - "Portrait of a Nurse from the Red Cross"Date: between 1914 and 1915The painter Gabriel (mile douard) Nicolets family came from Switzerland. He trained as an artist at academies in Lige, Dsseldorf and Paris. Stylistically, his painting was influenced by the French Impressionists. He belonged to the Malkasten artists association in Dsseldorf in 188185. He spent 1887/88 in Morocco where he worked as an illustrator and correspondent for the Illustrated London News. In addition, Nicolet made illustrations for various magazines belonging to the Cassel & Cie publishing house. While living in London he was a member of the Society of Portrait Painters. He participated in numerous exhibitions, including one in New York in 1916. He received several awards for his work, including the Medal of the Belgian Government in 1878 and a bronze medal in 1889 at the Worlds Fair in Paris, followed by silver in 1900.

Will Bullas-The doctorDate: 2013Will Bullaswas raised in the Southwest and art educated at Arizona State University and the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara where he studied with master painter Ray Strong. Somewhere in the middle of his schooling he was called to active duty in Vietnam.Will is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and was elected to membership with the Knickerbocker Artists of New York in 1986. Will has exhibited twice with the National Academy of Design in New York. In 2007 he received the Mario Copper and Dale Myers Medal from the American Watercolor Society for his contributions to watercolor.Will resides and creates, with his wife Claudia, in Carmel Valley, California just across the meadow from his son, who is also an artist, daughter-in-law and grandchildren.

Georges Chicotot (1868-1921)The Insertion of a Tube (oil on canvas), Chicotot, Georges (fl.1889-1907) / Musee de l'Assistance Publique, Hopitaux de Paris, France / The Bridgeman Art Library

Leon Zernitsky (1949- )-Medical examinationLeon Zernitsky was born in Russia in 1949. He graduated from Moscow Polygraphic Institute (Moscow Fine Art and Design University), one of the countrys premier art colleges, where he earned his MFA. Zernitsky enjoyed a successful career as Illustrator and fine artist creating art for international magazines, book publishers and major corporations around the globe. His work has been exhibited at art galleries and fairs around the world and he has received numerous awards including: Communication Arts (USA), Print (USA), Applied Arts (Canada), CAPIC (Canada).

Although he is well-versed in classical methods of painting he likes to paint in tune with the spirit of great Russian avant-garde artists. The influences of Chagall, Kandinsky, and Malevich that inspired his art is complemented by the diverse imagery, harmonious compositions, and intense colors. Leon enjoys experimentational art, and is continually expanding and developing his style and creative vision.

(1907)Georges Chicotot (1868-1921)-The first attempt to treat cancer with Xrays

Jean Geoffroy (1853 - 1924)Visit day at the Hospital (1889)

Jusepe de Ribera, La Mujer Barbuda (The Bearded Woman), 1631, oil on canvas. Hospital de Tavera, Toledo, Spain This painting is also known by its Spanish name, La Mujer Barbuda. Certainly one of the strangest, most foreboding images in the history of art, Ribera's painting is the portrait of the fifty-two-year-old Magdalena Ventura from Abruzzi with her husband and a newborn baby.

This is one case where pictures certainly speak louder than words, because as anyone can tell at a glance, Magdalena Ventura was far from a typical wife and mother: the unfortunate woman sports a beard even longer and more luxurious than that of her husband, who gazes forlornly at the viewer from the murky, shadowy background.

The stone tablet at the right of the picture bears a Latin inscription which tells us more about this unlikely trio: the inscription describes the"The Bearded lady of Abruzzi"as"a great wonder of nature"who bore her husband three sons before sprouting a bushy, undeniably masculine beard at the age of thirty-seven.

As the inscription helpfully points out, Magdalena's shock of facial hair"seems more like that of any bearded master than that of a woman who has borne three sons. "

This odd painting was commissioned in 1631 by the Duke of Alcal, the Viceroy of Naples and one of Ribera's most faithful patrons. The Duke's painting collection reveals that the collector was rather fond of paintings of unusual subjects and especially of bizarre figures engaged in even stranger behaviors, and given Ribera's oeuvre, the painter had the same strange proclivities.

Pablo Picasso Head of the Medical StudentHead of the Medical Student was one study that Picasso drew for a figure he eventually cut out of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Les Demoiselles d'Avignonis generally regarded as the first cubist painting. Under the influence of Czanne, Iberian sculpture, and African sculpture (which Picasso first saw in Paris in 1907) the artist launched a pictorial style more radical than anything he had produced up to that date. The human figures and their surrounding space are reduced to a series of broad, intersecting planes which align themselves with the picture surface and imply a multiple, dissected view of the visible world. The faces of the figures are seen simultaneously from frontal and profile positions, and their bodies are likewise forced to submit to Picasso's new and radically abstract pictorial language.Paradoxically,Les Demoiselles d'Avignonwas not exhibited in public until 1937. Very possibly the picture was as problematic for Picasso as it was for his circle of friends and fellow artists, who were shocked when they viewed it in his Bateau Lavoir studio. Even Georges Braque, who by 1908 had become Picasso's closest colleague in the cubist enterprise, at first said that "to paint in such a way was as bad as drinking petrol in the hope of spitting fire." Nevertheless, Picasso relentlessly pursued the implications of his own revolutionary invention. Between 1907 and 1911 he continued to dissect the visible world into increasingly small facets of monochromatic planes of space. In doing so, his works became more and more abstract; that is, representation gradually vanished from the painting medium, which correspondingly became an end in itselffor the first time in the history of Western art.

In order to be a better doctor, you have to see yourself through a looking glass, to view yourself and your practice in a whole other light to understand who you are and what you do.

Salvador Dal (1904-1989), The Bleeding Roses [Las rosas ensangrentadas], 1930, oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm. La Corua, Collecin Caixa Galicia.Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali Domenech, 1st Marques de Dali de Pubol (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dali, was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dali was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dali's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dali attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. Dali was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics

Frida Khalo (1907-1954) The Two Fridas 1939This painting was completed shortly after her divorce withDiego Rivera. This portrait shows Frida's two different personalities. One is the traditional Frida in Tehuana costume, with a broken heart, sitting next to an independent, modern dressed Frida. In Frida's dairy, she wrote about this painting and said it is originated from her memory of an imaginary childhood friend. Later she admitted it expressed her desperation and loneliness with the separation from Diego.

In this painting, the two Fridas are holding hands. They both have visible hearts and the heart of the traditional Frida is cut and torn open. The main artery, which comes from the torn heart down to the right hand of the traditional Frida, is cut off by the surgical pincers held in the lap of the traditional Frida. The blood keeps dripping on her white dress and she is in danger of bleeding to death. The stormy sky filled with agitated clouds may reflect Frida's inner turmoil.

Moses(Nucleus of Creation)- 1945Frida KhaloThis painting was commissioned by Don Jose Domingo Lavin. Lavin asked Frida Kahlo to read the Sigmund Freud book "Moses the Man and Monotheistic Religion" and paint her understanding and interpretation of this book. Before this Frida has painted a portrait of Lavin's wife in 1942. This painting was drawn as a miniature mural, maybe as a result of influenced by her famous husband Diego Rivera, who is famous as a muralist . In this painting, in the center is an abandoned baby which has a third eye in his forehead. This baby's face resembles Diego Rivera and Frida always paint him with the third eye of wisdom in her other paintings. The birth is under a sun flanked by heroes, gods, other human beings and the hands of death. In the foreground there is a baby in the conch and which is spurting waters into the shell. Frida referred that as "symbol of love". There are branches extending out from the dead tree trunks. In many of her other paintings Frida use this to refer the life and death cycle in the world.I read the book only once, and started the painting with my first impression. Later I read it again, and I must confess I found my work most inadequate and quite different from the interpretation Freud analyzes so marvelously in his [book] Moses. But now there's no way to change it."