Rheumatology Advance Access published online on June 18, 2008
Rheumatology, doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken227
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Working with folk arts may produce benefits to rheumatic patients: the case of Grandma Moses
Internal Medicine, Federal University of Paraná, Paraná, Brazil.
Correspondence to:
V. F. Azevedo, Internal Medicine, Federal University of Paraná, Paraná, Brazil. E-mail: valderilio@hotmail.com
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Anna Mary Moses, the most popular painter in the United States, took up painting when she was in her 70s when painful arthritis forced her to give up her short journey dedicated to embroidery and needlework craft. Her art is considered primitive art, or Naïve Art, and portrays mostly rural and bucolic American landscapes. Before the Rennaissance period there was no distinction between folk and classical art and this terminology derives from the absence of a