SANDPAINTING

Sandpainting

Sandpainting is the art of pouring colored sands, powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, and pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed, or unfixed sand painting. Unfixed sand paintings have a long established cultural history in numerous social groupings around the globe, and are often temporary, ritual paintings prepared for religious or healing ceremonies. It is also referred to as drypainting.

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sandpainting

Noun

  1. The art of pouring coloured sands and pigments onto a surface to make a temporary or permanent picture.
  2. A picture of this kind.


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