Sentences with phrase «exploding gunpowder»

A bronze Ding vessel (770 — 481 BCE) is shown beside Cai Guo - Qiang's A Certain Lunar Eclipse: Project for Humankind No. 2 (1991), made by exploding gunpowder to produce epic celestial forms across a seven - panel screen measuring six meters in width.

But the most important drawing to enter a Houston museum this year - Cai Guo - Qiang's intricate 10 - by -160-foot work created with exploding gunpowder in a 1960s - style happening worthy of Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle and other de Menil favorites, yet infused with the spirituality that was so important to Dominique - was commissioned by the MFAH.

Not exact matches

Muskets often exploded, could not be fired in the rain without ruining the gunpowder and were so erratic that they were not even aimed.

The sound is getting louder everyday, it is now left for the present government to do the needful in other to avert the eminent danger because presently this country is sitting on the keg of gunpowder which may explode at anytime.

It is not known when the first gunpowder charge exploded, sending a projectile down a barrel, to a distant target.