单词 | sand-painting |
释义 | > as lemmassand-painting sand-painting n. the technique used esp. by the Navajo Indians of painting with coloured sands; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > others by medium or technique velvet-painting1809 Poona work1816 Poona painting1817 Poona1821 lithochromy1837 rock painting1852 mural painting1879 splatter-work1897 sand-painting1902 scroll painting1911 dot painting1932 texturology1959 1902 W. Hough in Rep. U.S. Nat. Museum 1900 467 The ceremonial sand painting of the Hopi and Navajo, where the most beautiful effects are secured by allowing sand in slender streams of different colors to fall from the hand guiding it over the surface to form designs. 1908 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics I. 826/2 The sand-paintings..may be regarded as actual pictorial prayers. 1963 G. S. Maxwell Navajo Rugs (1973) iii. 47 Sandpainting rugs are woven copies of actual sandpaintings. 1978 T. Hillerman Listening Woman i. 3 Tell me more about how these sand paintings got messed up. < as lemmas |
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