(Note: The red deer on the opposite page may seem to be facing west, but
the ancient rock artists always depicted west on the right of a pictogram.)
Not exact matches
Dr Alice Samson, co-author of the paper from the University of Leicester School of Archaeology and
Ancient History, explains: «Scientific analyses from the team have provided the first dates for
rock art in the Caribbean — illustrating that these images are pre-Columbian made by
artists exploring and experimenting deep underground.
Visit the Aboriginal community of Hermannsburg, birthplace of world renowned Aboriginal
artist Albert Namatjira, trek down the
ancient Finke River bed to a desert oasis, climb to the heights of Kings Canyon, Watarrka National Park and explore the magnificent Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park, where you will see the spectacular Uluru / Ayers
Rock.
Museum of Stones, a massive installation by Brancusi - influenced Isamu Noguchi, will be supplemented with fifty works by thirty other contemporary
artists, as well as by fifteen
ancient Chinese
rock - related objects, which are on loan from the Met.
The One Thousand Year Old
Rock and Roll Band, 2013 (Balcony View) The Story of Hayy is a traveling
artist residency program hosted by the
artist collective, Nüans Nüans, and based on the
ancient Arabic text, Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan.
From «Unmade Beds» nominated for the Turner Prize to the
artist's latest revelation announcing she has married an
ancient rock in France, Tracey Emin is still able to raise an eyebrow, even if only in that sort of Michael Jackson kind of way.
Haji Omar's On the Wall project is an architectural and visual meditation inspired by the hundreds of years worth of handwritten Sinhalese and Tamil poetry found on the «mirror wall» at Sigiriya, an
ancient rock fortress in the
artist's native country of Sri Lanka.
Sodi's
rock sculptures are created by extracting dried volcanic magma from the Ceboruco volcano in Mexico; by encasing them in a gold ceramic glaze the
artist brings together some of Earth's most recent geological formations with
ancient and precious metal.