Sentences with phrase «ochre pigments»

In the Art in the Age of Altamira exhibition catalog, Jill Cook wrote that, after his cave visits, «Miró's preference for working off the easel on larger format works painted against a wall or on the ground, as well as his use of ochre pigments and earth tones developed.»

Two issues later, Colin Barras identifies the significance of cosmetics in human development, with the earliest evidence for this being 100,000 - year - old ochre pigments (25 October, p 32).

Of particular interest is a lump of ochre pigment with two perforated holes, which makes it among the oldest - known clearly worked pigments, Potts and his colleagues said.

«Harmonic Distortion» has worldwide environmental scope: marble clouds intricately patterned by wave formations; cyanotypes making apparent abstraction out of fifteen years of data showing that our cloud cover is reducing; a performance in which one woman is bound by another, Kinbakushi style, in state of the art fibre optic cable even as she tries to draw circles using the oldest of means — ochre pigment... So whether you wanted academic analysis, obsessive drawing burrowing into the psyche or the wide sweep of science and its consequent politics, you had them.

Heading downstairs to the exhibition space, «Daughters of Penelope» surveys the historic relationship between women artists and Dovecot: there's a strong sense of place ever present, from Moss circle / square (2010) in which Caroline Dear draws on her training in basket weaving, picking out grasses from her home on Skye which she dries and knots into tactile, perishable grids, to Naomi Robertson's Kantha Diaries (2011) produced after a trip to west Bengal, absorbing Kantha quilt designs into blue - white reproductions of daily rhythms, or a rug, Untitled (2013) created by Julie Brook and Dovecot, that mimics the gradations of tone in the British artist's burnt ochre pigment drawings, picked up while travelling through deserts in Libya and Namibia.

As his source of iron, George bought bags of red ochre pigment from the Hoover Paint Company, which he trailed out behind The Ragland as it sailed along.

Not exact matches

Ochre, which ranges in color from yellow to deep purple, has been favored by humans longer than any other pigment.

Ochre is most commonly defined by archaeologists as any iron - rich rock that can be used as a pigment.

His paintings employ a traditional technique used in the Chosun Dynasty (1392 — 1897) in which the pigments — in Ha's work, the ochres and dark umbers — are pushed through the weave of the burlap and eventually linen from the opposite side, and then trowelled with a palette knife on the frontal surface.

In another example, clumps of dried pigment beneath the flat ochre field in Orange Personage, 1947, distend through the surface like scar tissue, and as such imply that they are to be politely ignored.

In the prehistoric period, the pigment of this particular color was extracted from ochre, a natural clay earth pigment, and was used for cave paintings.

Kim's paintings are produced in a multi-stage process that involves dyeing the canvas with natural materials including indigo and ochre, and applying pigment with rags rather than a brush.

Flat patches of burnt sienna, umber and ochre are interspersed with high - keyed thicker blue pigments.