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Pepi Sánchez
Pepi Sánchez was a Sevillian painter. Born in 1929, she moved to Madrid in 1958 and lived there until she died in 2012. She had a unique and imaginative style, with Oneirology, oneiric elements and a clear Baroque influence. Her work was always independent from fashions and trends, and it represents an original addition to Spanish plastic arts. Her particular use of unmodified rocks and stones, as a support for her paintings, was an important part of her legacy. The characters that usually inhabit the strange structures in her paintings adapt themselves to the grooves in the stones, resulting in a surprising combination of painting and sculpture. Early life Josefa Sánchez Díaz started at the age of 12 when she joined the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, Santa Isabel de Hungria School of Fine Arts, in Seville. There her talent impressed teachers, as proven by her high grades and the awards she received. Later, however, these same teachers were to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oneirology
In the field of psychology, the subfield of oneirology (; ) is the scientific study of dreams. Research seeks correlations between dreaming and knowledge about the functions of the brain, as well as an understanding of how the brain works during dreaming as pertains to memory formation and mental disorders. The study of oneirology can be distinguished from dream interpretation in that the aim is to quantitatively study the process of dreams instead of analyzing the meaning behind them. History In the 19th century, two advocates of this discipline were the French sinologists Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys and Alfred Maury. The field gained momentum in 1952, when Nathaniel Kleitman and his student Eugene Aserinsky discovered regular cycles. A further experiment by Kleitman and William C. Dement, then another medical student, demonstrated the particular period of sleep during which electrical brain activity, as measured by an Electroencephalography, electroencephalograph (EEG), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
