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Narratives of art-making in chronic fatigue syndrome/ myalgic encephalomyelitis: Three case studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper explores the narratives of three women who had lived with severe chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) for many years, and who engaged in art-making as a leisure activity rather than for psychotherapy.
Reynolds, F
core   +1 more source

The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
wiley   +1 more source

Features of the St. Petersburg image in watercolor painting

open access: yesФилософия и культура, 2022
The image of St. Petersburg is an integral part of Russian art, in particular, in watercolor painting. This article is devoted to the analysis of the work of Russian watercolor artists, identifying the specifics and characteristic features of the image
Yueyue Xie
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring New Chemical Paths in Quantum AI: Preliminary Accomplishments and Future Perspectives

open access: yesAdvanced Quantum Technologies, EarlyView.
Two new strategies derived from Chemical AI to promote the advancement of sustainable quantum technologies are presented and discussed. The first strategy relies on the chemical implementation of molecular fuzzy sets, which are quantum mixed states associated with chemical microheterogeneous systems. The second strategy relies on photochromic compounds
Pier Luigi Gentili
wiley   +1 more source

Off the Grid [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Off the Grid explores the messy relationship between public and private perceptions of our urban spaces, especially the tensions created when lived experience runs up against the physical and conceptual networks of cities: street grids, construction tape,
Buffington, Matthew Owen
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A study of watercolor art on the theme of Qin Shihuang's terracotta army

open access: yesФилософия и культура, 2022
This work is devoted to the terracotta army of Qin Shihuang and its reflection in the works of modern Chinese masters of watercolor. The article consists of three parts. The first part analyzes the genesis and history of Qin Shihuang's clay army.
Hanpeng Wu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drawn to the Sea: Charles Bradford Hudson (1865-1939), Artist, Author, Army Officer, with Special Notice of His Work for the United States Fish Commission and Bureau of Fisheries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The biography of Charles Bradford Hudson that follows this preface had its seeds about 1965 when I (VGS) was casually examining the extensive files of original illustrations of fishes stored in the Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History ...
Murphy, Kristin A., Springer, Victor G.
core  

Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
wiley   +1 more source

Assimilative and non-assimilative color spreading in the watercolor configuration

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
A colored line flanking a darker contour will appear to spread its color onto an area enclosed by the line (watercolor effect). The watercolor effect has been characterized as an assimilative effect, but non-assimilative color spreading has also been ...
Eiji eKimura, Mikako eKuroki
doaj   +1 more source

Illusory spreading of watercolor

open access: yesJournal of Vision, 2006
The watercolor effect (WCE) is a phenomenon of long-range color assimilation occurring when a dark chromatic contour delineating a figure is flanked on the inside by a brighter chromatic contour; the brighter color spreads into the entire enclosed area. Here, we determined the optimal chromatic parameters and the cone signals supporting the WCE.
Devinck, Frédéric   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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