Sentences with phrase «hands on cave walls»

That the ancient artists who made outlines of their hands on cave walls (23 June, p 10) were communicating something...

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Thousands of years ago, people on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia spray - painted stencils of their hands on the walls and roofs of caves by blowing red paint out of their mouths.

Learn first - hand from the Kuku Yalanji people how their history is steeped in the roots of the trees, the paintings on the walls of their caves to the backdrop of the mountains behind.

Strange anatomical anomalies observed in hand stencils on the cave walls suggest the earliest artworks known to humanity may have been created instead by non-human entities, Neanderthals.

It's almost as if I'm shut in Plato's cave, seeing the world in the shadows on the walls — the shadows being my library of second - hand images and the cave being my studio, I suppose» — G. BROWN A display of astounding technical splendour and compelling conceptual depth, Glenn Brown's The Creeping Flesh is an enthralling example of the artist's unique painterly practice.