A traditional Indian art form in which colourful patterns are made using coloured sand, powdered colours or flower petals. These patterns are traditionally created to decorate floors, courtyards and thresholds of homes during Hindu festivals across India.
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Coined by French art critic and curator Michel Tapie in 1952, the term signifies French artistic and painting styles of…
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