X-ray video of a female American alligator while breathing. Breathing is the process that moves air in and out of the lungs, to allow the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the external environment into and out of the blood. Breathing sometimes also refers to the equivalent process using other respiratory organs such as gills in fish and spiracles in certain arthropods.
What is Plein-Air Painting? En plein air is a French term that translates literally as âin the open air.â The term âplein-air painting,â as it is currently used, usually refers to paintings that are completed on location. Over the past 20 years, interest in plein-air painting has exploded in the West.
Symbolism (arts) Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style originates with the 1857 publication of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, which Baudelaire admired greatly and translated into French, were a significant influence and the source of many stock tropes and images. The aesthetic was developed by StÃ©phane MallarmÃ© and Paul Verlaine during the 1860s and 1870s. In the ...