rock painting

  • 1rock painting — /ˈrɒk peɪntɪŋ/ (say rok paynting) noun 1. a painting on a naturally occurring rock executed with naturally occurring pigments, such as ochre and charcoal. 2. a genre of Aboriginal art comprising such paintings …

  • 2rock painting — noun : a painting on rock (as a cave wall, cliff, or boulder) made by primitive peoples …

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  • 3Painting — For other uses, see Painting (disambiguation). The Mona Lisa, by Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci, is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the world. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pig …

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  • 4Rock carvings in Central Norway — counties. This region of Norway contains approximately 300 rock carving and rock painting sites from the Stone Age and Bronze Age. The petroglyph sites are much more plentiful than the rock painting sites. The prehistoric art of this area is not… …

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  • 5Rock art of the Chumash people — Painted Cave, Santa Barbara County, California Chumash rock art is a genre of paintings on caves, mountains, cliffs, or other living rock surfaces, created by the Chumash people of southern California. Pictographs and petroglyphs are common… …

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  • 6Rock art — is a term in archaeology for any man made markings made on natural stone. They can be divided into:*Petroglyphs carvings into stone surfaces *Pictographs rock and cave paintingsIn addition, petroforms and inukshuks are rock art made by aligning… …

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  • 7Rock for a Remedy — (RFAR) is a non profit organization based in the United States. It was established in 2003. [cite web | url = http://www.rockforaremedy.org/pages/aboutus.html | title = Rock For A Remedy | accessdate = 2007 04 12] It organises concerts to help… …

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  • 8painting — /payn ting/, n. 1. a picture or design executed in paints. 2. the act, art, or work of a person who paints. 3. the works of art painted in a particular manner, place, or period: a book on Flemish painting. 4. an instance of covering a surface… …

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  • 9painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present.       Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …

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  • 10Painting of the Tarnovo Artistic School — The painting of the Tarnovo Artistic School was the mainstream of the Bulgarian fine arts between 13th and 14th centuries named after the capital and the main cultural center of the Second Bulgarian Empire, Tarnovo. Although it was influenced by… …

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