Sentences with phrase «like cave paintings»

For the record, I like cave paintings, as I love art and art history.

Like cave paintings, her works were exposed to the elements and allowed to fade, a process documented in photographs.

Shot on rough ground, Thomas Roma's black and white pictures of the shadows of dogs at play look a bit like cave paintings, where featureless silhouettes distill the doggy essence of each animal.

The Vita was (and, four years later, still is) a remarkably powerful handheld with the type of graphical oomph that makes the games available for its rival, the Nintendo 3DS, look like cave paintings by comparison.

I think the «shadow drawing» quality makes it look like a cave painting — superficially simple, but much more complex at a second (or third) glance.

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What of the Yugabdha sanatan Hindu Calendar that says its the year 1986772928 And human civilization began 6,000 years ago, how do you explain sites like Cueva de La Pasiega that contain cave painting dating back tens of thousands of years?

Ancient man may have hunted and eaten some dinosaurs (this is supported by many cave paintings that show people hunting what looks like dinosaurs).

They also have a dun coat, like the ones you see in the Ice Age cave paintings in France and Spain made when horses were wild.

The door, just uphill from the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory, leads into a cave that looks like the villain's lair in a James Bond film: the uneven stone walls painted white, an array of shiny instruments strewn about.

Of predictable discoveries, one can forecast several: another great Ice Age painted cave like Lascaux or Chauvet; a rich Egyptian burial, perhaps as fine as Tutankhamen's; an ancient city buried under sediment in the valley of one of the great west Asian rivers; and a rich cache under the heart of a great Mesoamerican city.

Just past the town of Almere, as you round a right - hand bend, you will find a sight unseen in Europe for centuries, if not millennia: hundreds of red deer, plodding groups of long - horned wild cattle, and skittish herds of low - slung brown horses, all moving through the open landscape like something out of a cave painting.

The fossils of the creature, named after the Rising Star cave system in which they were discovered — «naledi» means «star» in the local Sesotho language — paint the picture of an ancient hominin that possessed a mixture of human and ape - like traits.

In the highlands of Scotland, a scientific expedition led by Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her significant other Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall - Green) discover a long - lost cave where an over -30,000-year-old painting shows a tall human - like figure pointing toward a specific set of stars.

Like graffiti, the cave paintings must have been tremendously challenging physical work, and, like most graffiti artists, the cave painters must have been young peoLike graffiti, the cave paintings must have been tremendously challenging physical work, and, like most graffiti artists, the cave painters must have been young peolike most graffiti artists, the cave painters must have been young people.

You will be close to all the world renowned heritage sites like the Karoo Busman cave paintings and the Owl House where the w...

Things have changed so much that comparing those early games to recent releases is like comparing ancient cave paintings with the Mona Lisa.

Throughout your explorations, you'll find little things that build upon atmosphere of Dear Esther's scenery, like an armada of paper boats trapped in an underground river, or candles surrounding chemical diagrams and graffiti created with luminous paint on rocks and cave walls.

Like the first Neanderthals to bear witness to cave paintings, we are dimly aware of the vast artistic potential of the medium, but if a game can't sniff at the steady fun of a Nintendo platformer, it's viewed as a failure.

The surreal, dream - like «cave» paintings, such as beyond all walking, imaginary cave, and pool of light luxuriate in rich palette and uncanny light effects.

This is evident in the eerily haunting Têtes (2014), a dream - like, spiritual grouping of horse heads inspired by a visit to the Chauvet cave in southern France, and the stark white yet deeply moving Courant Central (2013), a heavily painted composition of pigment and vinyl on canvas that evokes an overpowering, heavy river current.

Yes, its manufactured by an artist, but knowing van Genderen likes to think about the chain of creation of a painting, it is difficult to know what to do with the final product, which has all the flavours of a Gottlieb, with its divided surface seeming to call for primal dualities between heaven and earth, sky and water, black holes and caves.

My paintings are often in low relief, maybe a bit like the bison at the Altamira cave, part protruding from the surface, part additive mark making: 12, 500 BCE.

The gray paintings look like ancient cave drawings inscribed in quicksand or murky fog, threatening to fade away before they can be fully grasped.

An early painting, from 1975, called «Jack the Bellboy or a Season In Hell,» looked like a crude cave drawing; a portrait of the artist Albert Oehlen, from 1997, featured the subject dressed up like an altar boy, with what looked like a curious smile on his face.

The title, like the textures, invites comparisons to animal hides and cave paintings.

His paintings are illusions, which raise the question of perception, like the shadows on the wall in the analogy of Plato's cave.

Ofili began to garner attention in the mid-1990s with his intricately constructed works, combining bead - like dots of paint, informed in part by cave paintings in Zimbabwe, with collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung.

Having been inspired by cave paintings, she combines a rorschach - like technical approach with a sensibility for creating complex images that results in compositions that feel specific, surprising and alive.

There is, first, the obvious fact that the elements don't really very often add up to a legible landscape (the black pentagon in Calvi looks no more like a cave than the squares in Mondrian look like skyscraper windows — that is, a confusion might be possible because of the limited number of shapes available, but everything in the intention of the painting is there to steer one away from it).

I mean «self - aware» in that the motif becomes a stand - in for painting (and therefore, the painter), like a view out a window or a mouth of a cave.

His interest in the heritage of art is immense — from the Paleolithic cave paintings of Africa through the ancient Greeks and Romans to the glories of the Italian Renaissance, he calls on his classical birthright for inspiration (including his Madonna's Raphael - like blue robe).

He'd become France's most famous and critically adored artist — best known for messy, tactile paintings that read like expressive updates of cave drawings and tribal totems.

His often dark paintings resemble those found within caves, and as such they also often contain symbols like primitive tools, flames and livestock.

In some ways, Louis's immersive works seem to have more of an affinity with paintings by other Color Field artists like Newman and Rothko than they do with Frankenthaler's stains; they evoke sublime, magisterial experiences of caves and grottos (as in the somber «Curtain,» with its stalactitelike points) or waterfalls (in the luscious «Tet,» on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art).

Both the viewer and the painting are animated, provoking an experience like that of passing through a chapel or a cave, rather than analytically viewing small - scale rectangles from a fixed perspective.

A print that says «Celebrate 40,000 Years of American Art» next to figures that look like rabbits from a cave painting.

previous owners installed a pergola over the sliding glass door and had painted it a dark chocolate brown, which resulted in a cave - like feel.

I love bedrooms painted black - seems like the perfect cave like retreat!

This room has poor natural light, so to diminish the cave vibe we're thinking about painting this room a warm, light gray with white trim (like the rest of our house).