Sentences with phrase «of ocher»

Both artifacts are made of ocher.

It was onion - harvesting season in the fertile valley at the foot of the Crystal Mountains, and the roads were noisy with overloaded motorcycles carrying the produce to larger market towns, kicking up plumes of ocher dust.

However, this year archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the African Heritage Research Institute in Cape Town uncovered what he considers much earlier evidence of abstract thought — two pieces of ocher engraved by a South African cave dweller 77,000 years ago.

Some scratched - up chunks of ocher, found in a cave in South Africa, may signal a change in assumptions about just how long ago humans began to communicate abstract thoughts through language and art.

Tracing the quest for sexual pleasure back to the discovery of a prehistoric, 70,000 - year - old chunk of ocher «lipstick» found lying in a South African cave, Margolis argues that the female orgasm serves an evolutionary purpose: By helping to propel sperm through the cervix, it may increase the chances of conception, and it could also cement parental bonds.

The works are encrusted with impasto scumbling and layers of opulent glazes, and because Kuo mixes most of his paints using natural pigments, his palette is earthy and composed of ochers, siennas, and umbers.

Not exact matches

The point, though, is that both sectors are integral features of the American economy, and the multilateral shape of the world order is such that it necessitates continuous realignments of policies favoring one or the ocher.

They look like sizable black pin heads sharply pronounced against the ocher stretches and even prominent in the midst of the dark areas.

Conversely, the blue - green regions are converted into ocher with the coming of autumn.

Near the prehistoric paint palettes, the archaeologists found stone tools that had been tailored to prepare the ocher mixture, as well as shaped pieces of bone that may have been used to apply the pigment.

The kits included a pair of abalone shells holding paint made from a red dirt known as ocher.

Creatures of supreme stealth and majesty, the 1,000 - pound carnivores were clearly revered, perhaps even worshipped by the artists who drew them in ocher and charcoal 30,000 years ago.

Most pieces of rock art, painted in red, brown or yellow ocher — a hydrous iron oxide — contain no organic carbon.

The team includes Thomas Sutikna of the National Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta and the University of Wollongong in Australia, who helped discover the «hobbit,» a small - statured human species from another Indonesian island, and he and Brumm are already excavating the caves near the newly dated art to search for ocher pieces, stone tools, and bones.

The builders did not apply red ocher as liberally as their predecessors did, and they painted only a few of the nearby slabs.

Red ocher was spread lavishly over the grave goods and also over the dry white bones of the dead (perhaps in a symbolic attempt to restore them to life).

On the walls of these giant caverns are bison, bears, horses, and rhinos, drawn in ocher and charcoal 30,000 years ago; they predate the celebrated Lascaux cave paintings by some 10,000 years.

The ocher artifacts were found in Blombos Cave, on a remote stretch of Indian Ocean coast.

The brand is backed by a well known NYC - based physician, Dr. Elena Ocher, who's Georgian roots allowed her to experience the benefits of Remedea her entire life.

A rocky, muddy path awash in ocher - colored water it was, with nary a ray of sunshine in sight.

So powerful is the difference, in fact, that Howey's taking a couple of special steps with this third cover in ocher, is it?

WHAT IT»S LIKE: Between Grand Case and Orient Bay on the French half of this multicultural island, the cliffside Sol é Luna Inn delivers a modern twist on rustic Provençal style — an ocher - hued stucco exterior covered in bougainvillea, washbasins reminiscent of the Danish designer Verner Panton, colorfully tiled plunge pools.

The enormous ocher - roofed ordination hall at Wat Kalayanamit grabs the eyes of virtually anyone who cruises past on the Chao Phraya River, even if nearby Wat Arun ends up getting most of the attention.

Located between the shopping of Chiado and the nightlife and eateries of Bairro Alto, the Bairro Alto Hotel is housed in an ocher, 19th - century baroque... Read More

Phillips acquired these paintings over a period of years, and the Rothko room came together in its present form between 1960 and 1966, when he added the fourth painting, «Ocher and Red on Red.»

In a palette of chartreuse, ocher, cinnamon and gamboge, Ito overlaid uncommon shapes, such as a rectangle rounded and pinched at the top like a loaf of Wonder Bread, into compositions of preternatural calm.

''... The salty blooms and ocher depths of many of [Joseph's] steel - relief paintings evoke not only the Mediterranean hub of Western culture but also its spokes, spanning the compass...»

Pileups of swipes and smears of acid - tinged ochers, dead blues, odd neutrals and straight - from - the - tube reds and greens, they showcase McNeil's talents as a colorist.

Start with one of the show's stars: Hartley's magnificent 1932 Mexican landscape, «Lost Country — Petrified Sand Hills» at Menconi + Schoelkopf; its ocher hills, blue sky and white clouds have the simple force of a bull's - eye.

They float off center left on an impasto surface of chalky red umbers and ochers.

Wood re-created the handful of shapes strewn across the flat ocher ground of Alexis's drawing at an enlarged scale for Untitled (Background Drawing)(2009).

In the current show, the aftermath of this interaction is most apparent in «April» (1991 - 92), a large amber, yellow, red and blue painting (50 x 80 inches), and especially in the smaller (53 x 46 inches) green, orange, ocher and black «MARCH» (1995 - 96), where the dots end just shy of the canvas edge, leaving an uneven, unpainted border.

In a pink - and - ocher dress and with two children in tow, she plods down the runway of a «mother and

Isolating fragments of the glass - curtain facades, the works are rendered in forceful colors — citron, ocher, electric blue, fuchsia — representing the blazing neon light reflected by neighboring buildings and adjacent advertising signage.

With regard to color, Heiser adds, «Schutz's pictures favor a carefully chosen palette of vomit and mold and rot, between pink and purple, turquoise and olive, ocher and crap.»

The expansive scale of Tolbert's paintings, coupled with the antagonism of his vibrant yet sour color palette — lush contrasts of pink, yellow and green coexist uneasily with light ochers and dark purples — gives Fine China its affective momentum.

Muted dark colors cluster along the edges of «Miller 22» and filaments of line swing the eye outward from the center of periphery of its mottled pale ocher field.

The bathers are painted in varying shades of yellow ocher with odd raw sienna and pthalo blue shadows.

As Storr points out in his essay, Mangold paints with mostly «warm hues — yellows, ochers, oranges, and reds — with soft blues, green and grey,» and counterpoints of a curvilinear or undulating graphite line.

In these and in the several Siren paintings, Tworkov follows (perhaps unconsciously) the Phidean convention of heads on the same level, and the ochers and blues and whites seem right for the subject, as well as the grey pink, grey blue and grey violet of Descending Divinities.

It is a simple image of the sea with a billowing burnt sienna and yellow ocher storm cloud at the horizon.

His color, now blazing, now gently softened, now sounding in resonant combinations, is the source of both form and light, holding within its brilliant transparencies darker gradations which convey limitless depth, at the same time allowing the white light of the canvas to shimmer through to the surface... slashing oranges cut across the pink and blue of partially squared area -LSB-...] with the more complex imagery of Queen II and III, in which figures with ritual connotations are implied in rich color schemes of red, blue, green and ocher with white.

Comprised of a series of irregular rectangular forms arranged in rows and columns, the buffed and sprayed components in white, black, deep red and ocher rhythmically alternate across the large surface implying a continuation beyond the boundaries of the piece.

Place your Ocher or pigment powder in a container and mix with an equal amount of water to soak.

The custom paint job, by Stephen and Lisa Longworth, radiates warmth, setting off a palette of blue, coral, and ocher.

Pantone's color of the year is Ultra-Violet, bright yellow will find its way into bathrooms and onto accent furniture, and darker yellows (think Ocher and Mustard) are poised to warm up our living spaces.