sandpainting
thumb|Rangoli, a popular form of Indian sand paintings, in [[Singapore.]] Sandpainting is the art of pouring coloured sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or 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. This form of art is also referred to as drypainting.
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- History
- Native American sandpainting
- Indigenous Australian sandpainting
- Tibetan sandpainting
- Japanese tray pictures
- Table decking
- Georgian sandpainting
- Victorian sand picture souvenirs
- Senegal
- Sand bottles
- Sand carpets
- Modern culture
- Present-day sand painting techniques
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|Rangoli, a popular form of Indian sand paintings, in [[Singapore.]] Sandpainting is the art of pouring coloured sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or 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. This form of art is also referred to as drypainting.
Drypainting is practised by Native Americans in the Southwestern United States, by Tibetan and Buddhist monks, as well as Indigenous Australians, and also by Latin Americans on certain Christian holy days. thumb|SLNSW 75764 Warriors in Ambush series 49 Aboriginal Mystic Bora Ceremony