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.
Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete Kunst, a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe virtually all modern art. Such art was banned on the grounds that it was un-German or Jewish Bolshevist in nature, and those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions.