Sentences with phrase «in rocky landscapes»

«The research supports the idea suggested by the early Indonesian rock art dates that modern humans brought the practice of making semi-permanent images in rocky landscapes to Europe and Asia from Africa,» Professor Taçon said.

Michelangelo's Taddei tondo, which depicts the Madonna and Child with the Infant St John in a rocky landscape, is the only Michelangelo marble in Britain.

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In the foreground is a rocky path inviting you and me into the rugged landscape.

Near Larsen C's edge is the Gipps Ice Rise, a rocky bump in the landscape that blocks the flow of ice into the ocean.

And so I found myself standing in the middle of a lava field, a rocky, alien landscape stretched out before me.

The landscape changes drastically from tall, mountain pines to rocky, desolate desert in such a short time.

Filmed on the rocky coasts and in the emerald forests of Ireland, Boorman turns this landscape into a primal world hewn out of stone and wood and mud by blood and iron.

For now, we are walking between mountains and valleys in a beautiful rocky landscape, with here and there a palm tree.

The dramatic volcanic landscape of La Palma, reputed to be one of the steepest islands in the world, is little - known outside the Canaries, but offers an ideal winter walking destination for walkers of most abilities featuring rocky treks and mountain paths.

Sitting in the middle of a monsoon - dependent lake amid a dramatic rocky landscape, this island fortress is an awe - inspiring sight only reachable by a dirt road, small bridge, or during the rainy season, by boat.

In certain areas of the Geopark much of the surface limestone has been water worn giving it a rugged, rocky appearance; a landscape that is often referred to as limestone pavement.

While traveling in Croatia you can discover a wide range of different landscapes including the Dinaric Mountains, eight national parks (e.g. the world - famous Plitvice Lakes National Park), the long and rocky Dalmatian Coast or almost eighty islands on the Mediterranean Sea.

The wild, rugged and rocky landscape of the glorious Graubünden region is waiting to be discovered, with superb railway journeys available from Chur that take you over, around and across the dramatic valleys that make this one of the most attractive cantons in Switzerland.

Though the beach is rocky in several parts, it presents a picturesque coastal landscape.»

Described by eighteenth - century European Romanticists as the «wildest daughter of Father Rhine», the Ahr River, set in a deep gorge, winds its way through an ever - changing landscape of rolling green hills, rocky promontories, wildflower meadows and stout forests.

Day 2: Explore the magnificent rocky landscape of Natures Window, The Loop OR Ross Graham Lookout and Hawks Head Gorges in Kalbarri National Park — some of the most spectacular red river gorges along the Murchison River.

The landscape of the island is formed by a combination of hilly terrain, sandy beaches and rocky shores, washed by the waters of one of the richest marine life in the world.

Best known for: Its rocky landscape — because unlike most of the other islands on this list, which are blanketed in tropical rainforest, Magnetic Island is filled with large granite boulders and eucalyptus woodlands.

Gaya Island Resort is located on Pulau Gaya, the largest of a cluster of five islands that form the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park, a natural conservation area off the coast of Borneo, close to Kota Kinabalu.Gaya Island Resort has a unique setting: the land is fringed with a golden sandy beach, rocky coastal outcrops, and surrounded by coral reefs.The hilly island landscape is covered with lush tropical rainforest and an abundance of flora and fauna.And to complete this perfect setting, visible in the distance, is the stunning outline of Mount Kinabalu.The guest villa exterior respects Sabahan architecture, uses local materials and blends harmoniously with the natural environment.

While this is arguably more of a gameplay criticism, the rocky, verdant landscapes of upstate New York and Canada feel at odds with the urban parkour Assassin's Creed gameplay (as we learned in the problematic Assassin's Creed III).

The game takes place in the confines of a remote valley in what looks to be the southwest USA, and the landscape consists mainly of rocky deserts, prairie, farmland and forests — with three towns and a number of isolated buildings and points of interest thrown in.

Despite her native credentials and lifelong association with Maine (she was born in Marsden Hartley's hometown of Lewiston in 1957 and currently lives in Waldoboro), Bell has never been inspired to represent its famed landscape — no Monhegan headlands, no Prout's Neck rocky coast, no Mount Katahdin eminence, no working waterfronts.

Another of Walker's students was Arthur Watson, now president of the Royal Scottish Academy; in the introduction to Downie's exhibition catalogue for her 2013 show Walk Through Resonant Landscape, the consequence of her Chinese residency and travels, Watson observes the contribution made by Walker to her students» ability to perceive and explore the unique landscape of Scotland and for the primacy of drawing: «With a base on the island of Tiree, [Frances Walker] ranged across the West Coast and Western Isles interrogating the coastal margins — the rhythm of pebbles across a storm beach or the fractured architecture of a rocky foreshore, meticulously recorded through a vocabulary of precise but unforgiving ink lines.»

The «Entablatures,» say, seem to me the worst of both historical pretension and glibness — but even the metal sculpture here, for rocky crags out of Asian landscapes, never lets its die - cut process stand in the way of routine.

Months later, Anderson's father and younger brother Walt found the boy's body floating in the water off Horse Point, a rocky, tree - strewn landscape.

The auratic sceneries of this painting series appear under glowing veils of mist: Be it deserted landscapes, expansive skies, mountaintops or rocky coasts, gigantic towers or fragile electricity pylons as relics of human civilization... Steeped in a solemn atmosphere, «Europa nach dem Regen» seems to be heavy with meaning.

Rovner creates a tension in conjuring images of fields of flowers, desert landscapes, rocky terrains — all at once landscapes in which her figures preside, and simultaneously abstraction.

Conner and Ruscha also respond in uncannily similar ways to the rocky western desert landscape.

In 1818, the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich painted Wander Above a Sea of Fog, in which a young man stands atop a rocky escarpment, surveying an untamed landscape of forest and craggy mountainIn 1818, the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich painted Wander Above a Sea of Fog, in which a young man stands atop a rocky escarpment, surveying an untamed landscape of forest and craggy mountainin which a young man stands atop a rocky escarpment, surveying an untamed landscape of forest and craggy mountains.

Cezanne, Hiroshige, and Hokusai's preoccupation with mountains in the landscape, Homer's fixation on Maine's rocky coast, and Ryder's evocative depictions of clouds as objects are all manifest in Hartley's Maine paintings.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timIn St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin many of the carvings of this time.

The Sea and Sky series of collagraphs and watercolors in Convergence recall the ever - changing rocky landscape around Ballycastle, Co..

His early works, particularly the landscapes, are bright and rich in picturesque motifs — crumbling towers, boats on the sea shore, colourful travellers crossing perilous bridges, bandits lying in wait in rocky ravines.

The paintings in his second solo at Charlie James Gallery show landscapes of tangled tree limbs and churning seas along rocky coastlines — otherwise benign places where a Hitchcock thriller might unfold.

In each montage the artist's photograph of a rocky and savage coastal landscape is partially overlaid and merged with enlarged images of cells from her own body.

The seascapes of Tory Island off the rocky windswept coast of Donegal, the scenic pleasures of the Glens of Antrim, the Giants Causeway, the bogs of Connemara in Galway, the Atlantic cliffs and coastline of Kerry and Mayo, the traditional Celtic landscapes of the Aran Islands, Achill Island as well as the unusual contours and countryside of County Cork - each of these locations has, over the years, attracted its painters and artists.