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  2. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Name Description Symbol Images Four gentlemen (si junzi) Orchids, chrysanthemum, plum blossoms, and bamboo Integrity and humility of the scholar. [3] Three friends of winter Plum blossoms, bamboo, and pine Longevity and resistance to the elements. [3]

  3. Motif (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Where the main subject of an artistic work - such as a painting - is a specific person, group, or moment in a narrative, that should be referred to as the "subject" of the work, not a motif, though the same thing may be a "motif" when part of another subject, or part of a work of decorative art - such as a painting on a vase.

  4. Category:Chinese iconography - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; In other projects ... Bamboo painting; Bird-and-flower painting; Bixi; C. ... List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs; N.

  5. Artistic symbol - Wikipedia

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    In works of art, literature, and narrative, a symbol is a concrete element like an object, character, image, situation, or action that suggests or hints at abstract, deeper, or non-literal meanings or ideas. [1] [2] The use of symbols artistically is symbolism. In literature, such as novels, plays, and poems, symbolism goes beyond just the ...

  6. Symbolist painting - Wikipedia

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    The Nightmare (1781), by Johann Heinrich Füssli, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. Symbolism, understood as a means of expression of the "symbol", that is, of a type of content, whether written, sonorous or plastic, whose purpose is to transcend matter to signify a superior order of intangible elements, has always existed in art as a human manifestation, one of whose qualities has always ...

  7. Flowers of the Four Seasons - Wikipedia

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    The Flowers of the Four Seasons (Chinese: 四季名花, Sìjì Mínghuā) are a traditional grouping of flowers found in Chinese culture [1] that spread to and influenced other East Asian [2] arts.

  8. Symbolism (movement) - Wikipedia

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    Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism. In literature, the style originates with the 1857 publication of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.

  9. Mandala - Wikipedia

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    Thangka painting of Manjuvajra mandala The Womb Realm mandala. The center square represents the young stage of Vairocana.He is surrounded by eight Buddhas and bodhisattvas (clockwise from top: Ratnasambhava, Samantabhadra, Saṅkusumitarāja, Manjushri, Amitābha, Avalokiteśvara, Amoghasiddhi and Maitreya)