Sentences with phrase «red ocher»

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).

The apses often had stone altars (which were frequently carved with spiral or animal designs), carefully plastered floors and walls, and other decorations painted with red ocher, a pigment probably imported from Sicily.

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

Not exact matches

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

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

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.»

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.

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

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.

Her palette is primarily white with ochers and reds.

Ferris» broad palette includes high - keyed, hothouse colors (deep reds, thumping pinks, lemon yellows and lime greens) and somber earth tones (umbers, ochers, blacks and grays).

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.

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.