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...remarkable degree, the cave paintings executed over 20 millenniums until about 11,000 years ago are concentrated in southern France and northeastern Spain. Some cultural impulse drove the early Homo sapiens of that region not only to venture deep into caves but also to paint and engrave them. Though some of the caves have been known for centuries, most were discovered - or rediscovered - in the 20th century. Lascaux is the most famous: its grandeur makes it exemplary. But so do its travails, as José A. Lasheras, the director of the museum and cave of Altamira in Spain, acknowledges. "Altamira...
...orphanage, nestled behind a 10-ft. wall on the breezy banks of the Tigris, Safah can take computer classes, practice sewing and paint portraits of the family she wishes she had. But she doesn't feel as safe as she used to there. A social worker tells her that the nurse wasn't at the Khadamiyah Women's Prison during her last visit. Suddenly Safah rushes out of the room, crying and beating her head with her hands in the hallway. "If she is released," says Safah, her eyes darting back and forth in a panic, "I'm not staying...
...Researchers are working on cheaper, eco-friendlier alternatives to oil-derived ingredients, but with the prevalence of petroleum, that's a big challenge. Here's another: Test your knowledge by checking the boxes next to the products that typically use petroleum-based ingredients. Answers are at the bottom. HOUSE PAINT...
...Smuts is seeing a 60 percent return rate on the 1000 tiles he ships each week.Smuts’s work inherently deals with the picture elements of everyday life, from the pixels of a computer screen to the square blocks of a city’s layout. Painting itself relies on pixelization in the suspended dots of insoluble pigment that give each color its hue. Indeed, the rods and cones of our eyes actually pixelize our view of reality, though with very fine resolution.Artists have long turned to pixels as a medium, from the stunning Roman, Byzantine and early...
...that is bigger and potentially more “hooked up” than the TLR will be constructed where the art studio currently is. The art studio will relocate within the Quad so that we do not lose an art space entirely. Party on, Garth. Study on, Cindy. Paint on, Roger. CHRISTOPHER S. CULLEN ’07 April 20, 2006 The writer is co-chair of the Currier House Committee...