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Fire and Water is a public art work by American artist John Luttropp, located on the southwest side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [1] The multi-element architectural sculpture was created for the entrance of the Milwaukee Fire Department Engine Company #25 station. It is located at 300 S. 84th St.
Most dictionaries and definitions of shan shui assume that the term includes all ancient Chinese paintings with mountain and water images. [3] Contemporary Chinese painters, however, feel that only paintings with mountain and water images that follow specific conventions of form, style and function should be called "shan shui painting".
The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
Fire and Water may refer to: Fire and Water, a 1988 artwork in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Film and TV. Fire and Water (Lexx), a location in the TV series Lexx " Fire ...
Each of the 25 kitchens on the ground floor at the back half of the circle has a private water well beside its stove. This is the only tulou in all Fujian with such convenient water supply. There was a one-story inner-ring house surrounding the ancestral hall as late as 2003.
Bincho-tan (びんちょうタン, Binchō-tan) is a mascot character, created by Japanese manga artist Takahito Ekusa (江草天仁, Ekusa Takahito) and produced by game goods company Alchemist. The name is a play on words: binchōtan ( 備長炭 ) is a kind of charcoal , which is mainly used for cooking.
The Yunyan Pagoda, 47 m (154 ft) in height, built in 961 AD. The Liaodi Pagoda of Hebei, 84 m (276 ft) in height, built in 1055 during the Northern Song. Following the reign of the Han dynasty, (202 BC–220 AD), the idea of the Buddhist stupa entered Chinese culture as a means to house and protect scriptural sutras.
The Water and Land Ritual paintings (水陆画) are a style of traditional Chinese painting based on religious or Chinese mythological subjects. The paintings are mainly intricate portraits of deities , historical figures, and the contrasting lives of common people and tragedies, in an ornate style with rich use of vivid colors and patterns.