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It is sometimes assumed that birds and flowers as well as the genre of birds - and - flowers have always been part of the Chinese artistic heritage , but this is not the case . Birds as a motif have been depicted continuously since ...
It is sometimes assumed that birds and flowers as well as the genre of birds - and - flowers have always been part of the Chinese artistic heritage , but this is not the case . Birds as a motif have been depicted continuously since ...
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... birds became a sub - category of the bird - and - flower genre . By the Tang period the Chinese fascination with strange rocks was well established , and in the early eighth century rocks began to be represented in art . In an early ...
... birds became a sub - category of the bird - and - flower genre . By the Tang period the Chinese fascination with strange rocks was well established , and in the early eighth century rocks began to be represented in art . In an early ...
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... bird or a flower replaces the figure on the central axis . Although symmetry underlies the placement of motifs in each lobe of the Indiana- polis box , the more natural poses of the birds lessens its stylized effect . The decoration of ...
... bird or a flower replaces the figure on the central axis . Although symmetry underlies the placement of motifs in each lobe of the Indiana- polis box , the more natural poses of the birds lessens its stylized effect . The decoration of ...
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