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The colors for the painting are usually made with naturally colored sand, crushed gypsum (white), yellow ocher, red sandstone, charcoal, and a mixture of charcoal and gypsum (blue). Mixing red and black can make brown, red and white make pink. Other coloring agents include corn meal, flower pollen, or powdered roots and bark.
Most anthodites are made of the mineral aragonite (a variety of calcium carbonate, CaCO 3), although some are composed of gypsum (CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O). The term anthodite is first cited in the scientific literature in 1965 by Japanese researcher N. Kashima, [1] who described "flower-like dripstone" composed of "an alternation of calcite and ...
Urban Garden is a sculpture by Ginny Ruffner, installed in Seattle, Washington, United States. [1] [2] It depicts a pot, flowers, and watering can. [3] The 27-foot-tall kinetic sculpture was commissioned by the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and weighs approximately 10,000 pounds. [4] [5] The pot is 9 feet tall and 7 feet wide. [6]
[citation needed] In historic Nasrid architecture, the composition and color of stucco varied depending upon the purity of gypsum stone and additives used to bestow properties to the mixtures such as hardness, setting time, and binding. [25]: 23, 56 The chemical formula for gypsum is CaSO 4 •2H 2 O. Gypsum is the most common sulfate mineral. [29]
Federal Triangle Flowers is an outdoor 1998 sculptural work by Stephen Robin, installed in Woodrow Wilson Plaza, between the Ariel Rios Building and the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, in Washington, D.C., United States. The installation includes two pieces, one depicting a single stem rose and the other a lily.
In 1954, the "Wuxi Clay figure Gypsum Craft Supply and Marketing Cooperative" was established in Wuxi to unify the management of clay figure artists. [11] Meanwhile, Jiangsu Huishan Clay Sculpture Creation Research Institute was established, [ 11 ] which was later restructured as the Huishan clay figurine factory in 1958 . [ 11 ]
A CT scan confirmed Wildung's findings; Thutmose had added gypsum under the cheeks and eyes in an attempt to perfect his sculpture. [31] The CT scan in 2006, led by Alexander Huppertz, director of the Imaging Science Institute in Berlin, revealed a wrinkled face of Nefertiti carved in the inner core of the bust. [34]
Saharan gypsum desert rose from Tunisia (length 47 cm) Baryte rose from Cleveland County, Oklahoma (size: 10.2 × 7.1 × 5.5 cm) Large desert rose formation in the Tunisian desert A desert rose is an intricate rose -like formation of crystal clusters of gypsum or baryte , which include abundant sand grains. [ 1 ]