Cavazos-Adame H, Torres AO, González-Treviño JL, García-Guerrero CJ

Language: Spanish
References: 21
Page: 416-419
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ABSTRACT

This essay analyzes the expressive capacity of the John Singer Sargent masterpiece "Gassed", in whom the author manages to portray the World War I moment in which the allied forces represented by British and American soldiers were lowered by the German front using the Bis sulfide, also knowed by Sulfur mustard. Is described how this chemical agent can affect the ocular surface and therefore selectively inflict losses in the military union when making unusable the main device of the senses. «Gassed», overcomes to us at the right moment at which the painter managed to express with his work not only a picture, but the core of the moment: the group of the military walking in column supported one with another one by his altered sense of location in the space due to an ophthalmologic injury by this chemical weapon.

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