Car painters are exposed to organic solvents during their work. Several sets of official regulations have therefore been adopted in Norway in recent years to reduce the exposure. This study evaluated some of the effects of these regulations, by measuring the levels of exposure to organic solvents in six car-painting garages and relating them to the limit values in Norway. Both stationary and pe...

Este texto, basado en la conferencia Universidad Federal de Pelotas, tiene el objetivo ofrecer una breve aproximación a historiografía y crítica arte feministas España desde su origen década los ochenta del siglo XX, cuando alcanzó mayoría edad, hasta nuestros días. Además, describe un proyecto investigación feminista, actualmente curso, que desarrolla grupo Pintoras españolas mujeres XX (PEMS2...

We present an application of texture synthesis in creating collages. We use the texture synthesis method proposed by Ashikhmin [1] to selectively copy patches of the source image onto the image to be stylized, creating an automatic collage. The underlying algorithm is fast and allows the user to iteratively improve the quality of the resulting image. We show the use of this algorithm in capturi...

On the walls of the Museum there hangs a picture symbolic of one of the strangest phenomena in the history of modern art. It shows five painters gathered in a studio. One is commenting on a drawing by a second, while the other three look up from their work to listen. Painted in London during 1765 by the Pennsylvaniaborn portraitist Matthew Pratt, the canvas was exhibited a year later at the Soc...

As far as is known, the pigment Prussian blue was synthesised for the first time in Berlin in the early 1700s. It is commonly assumed that the pigment was not used in paintings before the 1720s. The presence or absence of this pigment is often used to answer questions concerning the dating and authenticity of art objects from the 18th Century. For the very first time, a large collection of Fren...

the aim of this article is to analyze representation of women in contemporary iranian painting. as the approach of cultural studies shows, a representation is never a pure reflection of reality; rather, it portrays reality in a specific way in order to reproduce the dominant hidden discourse. therefore, this research aims to decode women’s portrayals in order to discover the hidden ideology in ...

the family of najaf ali isfahani were unique in safawid and qajar periods. no family has played a more prominent role in the painting of court life as more as najaf ali’s family. najaf ali in recognition of his work in lacquer painting was foremost among the lacquer painters. under afsharid and  zand  periods, lacquer works further developed and ali ashraf was one of prominent painters in this ...