Sentences with phrase «excavated from»

When the builders of houses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries wanted to do something cost - effective with the clay soil excavated from digging a home's foundation, they had the workers mix it with lime and used it to plaster the inside basement walls.

Since the first diamond was excavated from the ground, the diamond industry has been shrouded in mystery.

The relevant legal principles can be excavated from the general prolixity but you have to search for them.

Numerous mastodon, mammoths, ground sloths, bison and camels - as well as insects - were excavated from the site.

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

Even more ambitious, however, is the government's plan to reclaim and construct a land area the size of New York's Central Park at 5 - to - 10 meters above sea level, allowing citizens from outer atolls to resettle on this new elevation - fortified land, excavated from the sea on Funafuti Atoll.

Excavated from the Black Heart of a Negress, n.d.; cut paper on wall.

Excavated from Pit 1, Qin Shihaung's Mausoleum, 1977.

Kara Walker installs «For the Benefit of All the Races of Mankind (Mos Specially the Master One, Boss) An Exhibition of Artifacts, Remnants, and Effluvia EXCAVATED from the Black Heart of a Negress III» (2002) at the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY

MG Many of your works feel like objects excavated from an archaeological dig.

Alongside the paintings are small figurines, which Kvetny refers to as «fossils», excavated from her paintings as physical embodiments of the universe that she has created — a unique universe of contemporary surrealism for the Internet age.

Nearby, sherds of Medieval German stoneware excavated from the mud of the City of London have faces inscribed in them that recall Upritchard's totemic ceramic works.

In the 1990s, she began exploring the potential of plaster reliefs, carved with alpha - numeric or hieroglyphic - like marks and painted in earthy - tones to resemble something excavated from antiquity.

Teeth from a cremated child were excavated from a site believed to be 11,500 years old.

London - based Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen employ the industrial process of electroplating in the production of a «seascape» onto stainless steel panels using metals excavated from the Democratic Republic of Congo to be used in electronics manufacturing in China.

It has a complicated sense of newness: you have never seen anything quite like this art before, yet it feels musty and archaic, as if excavated from tombs.

Photos could be excavated from the morgues of bygone magazines and science journals, blown up and bannered with jarring, sardonic captions (Barbara Kruger).

, torn - out, ripped - off / the stock is marble, broken concrete, holograms and polythene clouds / pop music and high renaissance excavated from seams of educational documentation... veins of NME... lodes of museum catalogues / antiquity scoured and frack'd».

Expect to find a 25 - foot wide trench cradling thousands of calcified «artifacts» excavated from 20th century media devices.

Following Baldessari's seminal statement «I will not make any more boring Art», he conceived the work The Artist Hitting Various Objects with a Golf Club (1972 — 73), composed of 30 photographs of the artist swinging and hitting with a golf club objects excavated from a dump, as a parody of cataloging rather than a thorough straight classification.

Walker: «Excavated from the Black Heart of a Negress.»

The three ceramic forms are taken from Wedgwood's vast body of vases and urns, which were inspired by the classical roman pots being excavated from all over Europe in the mid-1700's, most notably the Portland vase that Josiah Wedgwood saw on display in London in 1786, later producing his own version in his trademark Jasperware.

Small sculptures on the other table might have been excavated from an archaeological site.

In the present work, the figure is brought to the fore with a renewed sense of clarity, excavated from layers of historical allusion and abstract technique.

October, 2018, features a 3D scan of an infant excavated from Pompeii who is painted bright orange and flying through a school hallway carrying textbooks as if late to class.

A few formal elements of small circles or lines are added or excavated from under - painting.

These geometric shapes of contrasting colors are either excavated from previous layers or important enough for Jones to spare from erasure.

Finally, geometric shapes of lines, dots and squares, either excavated from previous layers or important enough to spare from erasure, are deployed.

The body of a baby excavated from Pompeii floats in an empty school hallway; a fish drinks Coca - Cola as Los Angeles burns; a green, froglike creature perches on a white - painted metal ladder, blithely out of place.

His painstakingly crafted organic forms find a home inside the walls of houses, appearing to have been excavated from the drywall and wallpaper.

The church features Gothic architecture, with a pointed arch, supporting buttresses and belfry, with the main highlight being the gold - painted wooden statue of Mae de Deus, followed by the adorning black stones which were excavated from the church's original location in Old Goa.

excavated from the Quanzhou coast, Fujian Province of China, in 1958 (black circle)(Li, 1997); and (3) location of fossil

Analysis of prey remains excavated from an histoirc bald eagle nest on San Miguel Island, California.

Witness some of the greatest viking artifacts along with several nearly complete boats, including the Oseberg ship, excavated from the largest known ship burial in the world.

The buildings, bridges and monuments that now sit on the surface are built from the limestone and gypsum that was excavated from the quarries and tunnels below.

Driving this home was an entry in one of my weathered travel journals that I recently excavated from a forgotten storage bin.

Back in 1850, a pot featuring a Chihuahua was excavated from the site of Casas Grandes in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

Yesterday, Luz's project had been to present Ray with a gift of herself swaddled like a chocolate in a fur coat she'd excavated from one of the cavernous hall closets, though she was not so dark as chocolate.

For me, the most telling is the one which has excavated from his work not...

As the viewer regards two separate paintings by 16th century Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen, titled The Vegetable Seller (1576) and A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms (1551) respectively, each cut to a different fragment of the paintings» surfaces raises questions: what do the artworks depict; what is placed in their foregrounds; what is relegated to the background; and, ultimately, what meanings can be excavated from the artworks» layers and represented objects?

It's a gloriously written film, with jokes that are crafted rather than excavated from reams of on - set improvisation1; the success of the punchlines is scattershot and up for debate (connoisseurs of the Borscht belt should find much to admire, but a rehash of Lloyd's lovesick daydream flatlines, due in no small part to an overestimation of the comic chops and kitsch appeal of Honey Boo - Boo's mom), yet there is something bracing about its structural classicism after the last few years of watching the Church of Apatow whack off.

For me, the most telling is the one which has excavated from his work not only an extended and devastating critique of the bourgeoisie...

First footage of Drake's (potentially spoiler - ish) desert - going adventure is now in the wild, excavated from the recent Eurogamer Expo.

For me, the most telling is the one which has excavated from his work not only an extended and devastating critique of the bourgeoisie in general and of 1950s America in particular, but has also recognised a compassionate portrait of characters trapped by social conditions of which they're scarcely even aware.

The black monolith, or one of its relatives, is back, having been recently excavated from the bottom of a crater.

But even if you are a connoisseur of jokes about vomit, big chunks of stuff excavated from mossy teeth by dental floss, and really bad comb - overs (are you doubled over with soda - out - your - nose laughter yet?)

The Roman glass shards have been excavated from sites in Israel.

A sandstone slab covered in fossilized footprints has been excavated from the grounds of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

By a year later, the bones of an almost complete arm and hand had been exposed, though not yet excavated from the rock.

To help solve the mystery, an international team of researchers investigated 215 bones previously excavated from 11 sites in southern Iberia, in an area known as Spain today.