The National Gallery of Art's online Winslow Homer exhibit has 35 images from the more than 50 that were on display at the National Gallery in 2005. The images are gorgeous and crisp, and the multimedia components give the exhibit depth. Visitors unfamiliar with Homer's early life and career as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly and an artist-correspondent during the Civil War, should watch the short video in the "Highlights" link. Visitors interested in seeing the progression of Homer's work must check out the "Chronology" link, which not only has a timeline of his life, but also has 36 thumbnails of his work, illustrations, and paintings, in chronological order from 1862-1909. The full-size images can be viewed in a slideshow if visitors click on any of the thumbnails. The text below each of the images explains his departure from oil painting in his earlier days to painting in watercolor, for which he became most famous. Visitors will also note the different focus his paintings of New England have when compared to those in Florida and the Caribbean.
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This article emphasize the importance of considering psychological mechanisms for a thorough understanding of users of information services. The focal point is the relation between personality and information seeking which is explored through a quantitative analysis of 305 university students' personality traits and information habits. It is shown that information behaviour could be connected to all the personality dimensions tested in the study - neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, competitiveness and conscientiousness. Possible explanations for these relations are discussed. It is concluded that inner traits interact with contextual factors in their final impact on information behaviour.