One cave interior was covered with handprints in white.
More questionable was Yoko Ono's collaboration with Opening Ceremony, complete with handprints on crotches.
In Chicago, a cow decorated with handprints of patients at a children's hospital went for $110,000.
But the museum's only other big drip painting is the audacious but awkward early "Number 1A, 1948" (the one with handprints across the top).
For example, "Suklak Gyatso, the Third Pawo Rinpoche, with Handprints and Footprints" (late 16th-to early 17th-century) depicts the famous lama incarnation Suklak Gyatso (circa 1567-1630) surrounded by oversize handprints and footprints marked with wheels.
The clothes, alas, did not carry this theme forward — no giant M&M's buttons or even as much brown as cropped up on other runways — but, instead, lots of those infernal lopsided hems and quilt-and-fabric coats, and at least one thing that I had not encountered so far this week or, in fact, since nursery school — a fabric patterned with handprints.
The once-venerable Royal Academy is again playing the game, eager to match the success of "Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection," which drew 300,000 visitors in 1997 thanks to massive media attention and a controversy over a portrait of an English child murderer made with handprints of children.
More than 30,000 years ago, prehistoric humans in Europe began drawing animals and the occasional human on cave walls, along with handprints stenciled in red ochre.
7. Something with handprints or footprints.
Once the pearl has been cast, the family can personalize it with handprints or messages etched into the damp concrete and add small mementos.
