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A list of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs, including decorative ornaments, patterns, auspicious symbols, and iconography elements, used in Chinese visual arts, sorted in different theme categories. Chinese symbols and motifs are more than decorative designs as they also hold symbolic but hidden meanings which have been used and ...
Onychonycteris means "clawed bat", in reference to the fact that this animal had claws on all five of its digits, whereas modern bats only have claws on the thumb (in most species) or thumb and index finger (in pteropodids ). [1] The specific epithet is a tribute to the fossil prospector and preparator who discovered it, Bonnie Finney.
Rorschach experimented with both asymmetric and symmetric images before choosing the latter, [48] giving the explanation: Asymmetric figures are rejected by many subjects; symmetry supplied part of the necessary artistic composition. It has a disadvantage in that it tends to make answers somewhat stereotyped.
Indigenous American visual arts include portable arts, such as painting, basketry, textiles, or photography, as well as monumental works, such as architecture, land art, public sculpture, or murals. Some Indigenous art forms coincide with Western art forms; however, some, such as porcupine quillwork or birchbark biting are unique to the Americas.
Shou (character) Shou. (character) The character for longevity ( shòu 壽 ), that here we can see in one of the highly stylized forms, decorates the four corners of this modern Chinese carpet. Flying red bats surround four shòu characters. Shòu ( Chinese: 壽; pinyin: shòu ⓘ) is the Chinese word/character for "longevity".
Icaronycteris is an extinct genus of microchiropteran (echolocating) bat that lived in the early Eocene, approximately 52.2 million years ago, making it the earliest bat genus known from complete skeletons, and the earliest known bat from North America. [1] [2] Multiple exceptionally preserved specimens, among the best preserved bat fossils ...
Louse ( pl.: lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Phthiraptera has variously been recognized as an order, infraorder, or a parvorder, as a result of developments in phylogenetic research. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Lice are obligate parasites, living externally ...
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies and Other Flowers in an Urn on a Stone Ledge (1688) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C. .