Art and Reality Weekend Reality Check ! please feel free to comment, my Gallery is on the right of the main page, both my photographs & paintings , please click on any image in gallery & it will enlarge , much of my artwork here is for sale /just inquire ...then at the bottom of main page so many other pages to view and comment on too....now this weekend Im telling All who visit, about an excellent very unique and very very talented folk /pop group but really thats too narrow a description, the voices and music superb... thats all im saying , the group is FLEET FOXES just google and listen... here's a quote : The Fleet Foxes are a rock band that sounds like no other -- imagine a pastoral choir overwhelming a sweeping folk-rock band, in the middle of a sunlit forest in the spring.

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X-rays reveal Van Gogh portrait

The identity of the peasant woman is not known
A new X-ray technique has revealed a previously unknown portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh, which was painted over by the artist.

The peasant woman's face was hidden behind the work Patch of Grass, completed by Van Gogh in Paris in 1887.

Scientists Joris Dik and Koen Janssens used high-intensity X-rays from a particle accelerator to scan the painting and reveal the face beneath.

Van Gogh is known to have often reused canvasses to save money.

The identity of the peasant woman in the painting is not known.

The powerful X-ray bombardment caused atoms in the picture's layers of paint to emit "fluorescent" X-rays of their own, which indicated the chemicals they originated from. That enabled a colour map of the hidden picture to be produced.

The portrait fills a square area measuring 17.5cm by 17.5cm (6.8 by 6.8 inches).

Mr Dik, a materials scientist from Delft University, and Mr Janssens, a chemist from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, published their scientific paper online in the journal Analytical Chemistry

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