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François Delarozière | Compagnie La Machine. The theatre we practice is street theatre and action in the street. Scenes are performed in places that are used daily by all inhabitants. In short, especially in places where we would not expect them to take place. We deliberately surprise and unsettle the onlookers round the corner of a street. And so, this street art, this art in the streets, gives us the opportunity to imagine a collective fantasy, a unifying dream. Born in Marseille in 1963, François Delarozière chooses the path of fine arts following five years of agricultural studies, taking full advantage of these years to explore all techniques associated with visual arts.

His mother is a musician and father a DIY genius. In 2003, wishing to involve themselves in the ongoing major urban regeneration project in Nantes, François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice propose several drawings to Jean Marc Ayrault, Mayor and President of Nantes Métropole. François Delarozière is also a scenographer and director.

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Memory implantation is now officially real. In this study, the mouse is now afraid of an environment in which it never received pain, and would therefore not associate pain with it. By artificially activating the neurons associated with the pain-free environment in a new context with a foot shock, a fear response is now elicited the original context where no shock or pain occurred.

The experiment takes advantage of associations, but uses optogenetic activation to make the mouse remember shock where shock never occurred (false memory). But the environment could be similar enough that it thinks it may be get a shock anyways. umm, yeah, but the mouse still recieved pain from simply thinking of or remembering the environment. Imagine it this way. Of course you would be scarred shitless if you were forced into this bedroom, which the simple act of thinking of causes physical pain. The conclusion that it created a false memory is a huge assumption. I agree with this person...

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Pirate 777. Comics. Image. Cartoons. Literature. Games. The Joseph Cornell Box. Seventeenth Century Art: Most Significant Artists of the Baroque Period. The tense and extravagant Baroque movement defined the art of the 17th century. The Baroque Period was distinguished by exaggerated dynamism and clear detail that aimed to create drama and grandeur in sculpture, painting and architecture. The style is said to have started around 1600 in Rome before spreading across Europe.

It was heavily influenced and encouraged by the Catholic church, which used it to communicate religious themes, war imagery, and aristocrats who appreciated the exuberance. The artists of the time focused on depicting natural images, steeped in intense emotions and exaggerated through the play of light and shadow. It was both simplistic and melodramatic in its form, glorifying the church and monarchy.

Though many artists cemented a place for themselves during the movement, the most renowned of the Baroque Period were Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt for painting, and Bernini for sculptures. The Incredulity of St. Francis of Assisi. More Astounding Modern Art Collectors. Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. The Most Iconic Surrealist Paintings. Founded by Andre Breton in the early 1920s and emphatically explained in his Manifestoes of Surrealism, Surrealism is often considered both a cultural and revolutionary art movement.

The form dedicated itself to depicting the subconscious and as such many critics regard Surrealism as a substantial divergence from traditional art movements. By stripping ordinary objects of their normal function, Surrealist artists aimed to expose psychological truth and as a result created abstract images in order to evoke empathy from the viewer.

Highly individualized, the movement relied heavily on the element of the unexpected, borrowed from various Dadaist techniques and eventually came to represent the alienation many experienced in the wake of a war stricken world. These seven iconic surrealist paintings have become not only iconic in the field of surrealism, but in art as a whole: The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali Metamorphosis Of Narcissus, Salvador Dali. Anonymous’s ‘Black March’ Media Survival Guide. Is a "Garden" the World's Greatest New Artwork? | Articulations. The Anamorphose. Courtesy of Flickr user groume What’s the best new work of art in the world? Good question. The most interesting and mind-bending new artwork that I’ve encountered is a remarkable garden in Paris titled , recently designed and assembled by Francois Abelanet .

We’re accustomed to the idea that paint can form an illusion. When you stare down at it from the steps of the City Hall in Paris, Abelanet’s carefully designed garden resembles a terrestrial globe. But move a little and its appearance changes. Gardens are one of the most notable accomplishments of French culture and reached their height in the work of André Le Notre (1613-1700), chief gardener for King Louis XIV (1638-1715), most notably at the Palace of Versailles.

Notably, Le Notre was also interested in the dramatic impact of surprising effects which can be discerned from only one place. This concept of a unique, privileged vantage point provides the basis for Abelanet’s garden. Anamorphosis. Dave Conservatoire - Learn about music for free! Painting computer surprises viewers with its artwork. Sandrine Ceurstemont, editor, New Scientist TV What if you were told that your favourite painting was created by a machine? Can a computer produce an artistic masterpiece? Computer scientist Simon Colton has created software called the Painting Fool, which he claims possesses creative talents. In this video, you can see some of its recent artwork, demonstrating a range of styles. One of its pieces uses visual attributes of the human body to produce a crowd of people, while in another example it uses a more impressionistic style. What first appears to be a straightforward painting of a hand reveals a hidden dimension when turned sideways.

The Painting Fool often seeks inspiration online by running web searches or trawling social networking sites. For more on the Painting Fool, check out a gallery of its recent paintings or read our full feature: Art-ificial: The virtual virtuosos redefining creativity. Psychedelic Petri dishes turn lab work into a freakout session. Amazing Image Gallery: The Art of Science | Science as Art, Artistic & Scientific Photo Gallery.

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