The Snail
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| Artists | Henri Matisse |
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| Dimensions | 2. 87 m x 2. 88 m |
| Created | 1952–1953 |
| Locations | London |
| Media | Paper, Gouache |
| Supports | Paper |
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| ID | 2458321 |
About The Snail
The Snail is a collage by Henri Matisse. The work was created from summer 1952 to early 1953. It is pigmented with gouache on paper, cut and pasted onto a base layer of white paper measuring 9'4³⁄₄" × 9' 5". The piece is in the Tate Modern collection in London.
Nottingham: Newly discovered rare 'lefty' snail looking for love
... He previously experimented using " lefty" Jeremy, who also had genitals on the opposite side, making it very difficult for The Snail to mate with other snails...
The man rescuing Britain's 'magical' glow worms
... In a scenario out of a horror movie, the young insects crawl onto the animal s shell and inject a paralysing toxin that slowly turns The Snail s insides into soup, which they then suck dry...
Left-handed DNA found - and it changes brain structure
... (Remember the quest to find Jeremy the garden snail because, in The Snail world, righties and lefties can t have sex as their genitals are in the wrong place as far as the other is concerned? ) Jeremy the lefty snail and one of his right-spiralling-shell offspring Scans of participants in the UK Biobank project showed the cytoskeleton was changing the structure of the white matter in the brain...
Bermuda land snail: An animal 'back from the dead'
... Mark Outerbridge, a wildlife ecologist for the Bermuda government, said The Snail was a Lazarus species , which was considered extinct not so long ago...
Nottingham: Newly discovered rare 'lefty' snail looking for love
A rare left-coiling snail is looking for love after being discovered by a shell-searching academic in Nottingham.
The unusual gastropod was found by Prof Angus Davison, from the University of Nottingham, near to his home in The City .
The Academic is now hoping to find the unnamed animal a mate so he can investigate how The Shell occurs.
In 2016, for a different " lefty" snail called Jeremy, who was found in Suffolk.
Jeremy eventually managed to find a mate before.
Despite 28 years of working on snails, Prof Davison had not found a left-coiling one Himself - until The Night before he was set to leave the country to search for them.
The new snail is a grove snail, or cepaea nemoralis - commonly seen in the UK.
Prof Davison said: " In 28 years of working on snails, I have never found a left-coiling snail in the UK, so it was amazing to finally find one near my home. "
Previous work by The Academic , from the university's school of life sciences, has given insight into understanding how The Left and right side of The Body is established in other animals, including humans.
He previously experimented using " lefty" Jeremy, who also had genitals on The Opposite side, Making It very difficult for The Snail to mate with other snails.
The Snail eventually delivered right-coiling offspring, which were used to show that the rare left-spiralling shell of some garden snails is sometimes a developmental accident, rather than an inherited condition.
Prof Davison is also looking for The Public 's help to name The Snail .
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
