Sentences with phrase «carved stone blocks»

Looking at my photographs from the exhibition reminds me that there was a room of carved stone blocks, about three feet in any direction, with voids of various sizes in their centers, so that as you peered in you didn't know just how deep or shallow the negative space was.

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Just because somebody carves a block of stone doesn't mean that he's worshiping stone..

Luna, the developmental cognitive neuroscientist, compares it to an artist who begins with a block of granite and carves away any unneeded stone to create a sculpture.

Still, the Djinn (spirit) blocks, stone carvings and monuments do little to belie the breath - taking sight that awaits when you turn the final corner and get your first truly magical glimpse of The Treasury (Al - Khazneh).

Easter Island's most famous attraction is the moai statues, enormous head - and - torso blocks carved from the stone of the Rano Raraku volcano.

A further 30 mins drive takes us to Ollantaytambo surrounded by the sacred mountains, where we will again discover the magnificence of the Incan constructions, the amazing temple of the Sun, enormous blocks of rock perfectly carved and polished, stone water fountains, stairs, terraces and the beauty of the local people in their traditional dress, all surrounded by the sacred mountains and Valley of Patacancha and Willoq.

The sequel to one of the best original Nintendo DS games, Picross 3D Round 2 is a puzzle game in which you carve objects out of the mathy stone blocks you can see above.

Modigliani's Têtes reflect his devotional mania for carving, or the liberation of form from a block of stone.

And in a macho understanding of these things that goes back to 1550 (when Giorgio Vasari published the first art history book, The Lives of the Artists, and devoted much of it to Michelangelo's famous struggles to release the figures «hidden» in his marble blocks), stone carving was seen as a primary test of the artist's abilities.

In the 1920s and 1930s, direct carving — cutting figures out of a block of stone or a lump of wood — was seen as the purest, most challenging way to make a sculpture.

Carving sculpture out of a block of stone or wood was central to Henry Moore's practice throughout his career.

Areas of instruction include painting (realism to abstract); drawing (life drawing, anatomy and design); sculpture (clay, wood carving, stone carving, assemblage and casting); printmaking (etching, wood block, silkscreen, lithography); mixed media (3D compositions); welding (plasma cutting, Oxy - acetylene, MIG and TIG welding); bronze casting (lost wax process) and literature of art.

The block - like forms, looking as if carved in stone, correspond with the contemporaneous vertical, statuesque stelae of the Personnages group of sculptures, and can be seen as representations of people who were close to her but no longer by her side after she left her French homeland for America.

There, he practiced «direct carving» — a technique pioneered by Constantin Brancusi some 25 years earlier, in which artists cut into a block of stone without the guidance of a preparatory drawing or model.

As a sculptor, his words have been carved into stone blocks or as inscriptions on buildings.

«Unlike many other approaches to reconfigurable robots, smart sand uses a subtractive method, akin to stone carving, rather than an additive method, akin to snapping LEGO blocks together.

For an extreme example, imagine a law review article carved into a stone block.