• Beijing 2008 (Chinese: 北京2008) is a 2005 oil painting by a Chinese Canadian painter Liu Yi. It depicts four naked or half-naked women playing a game of...
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    The opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest. It began at 20:00 (8:00 PM) China...
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    writers Song Xiaoming and Yuan Yuan) Wei Wei and Sun Nan singing Beijing Beijing (wo ai Beijing). Leona Lewis, Jimmy Page (with David Beckham making an appearance)...
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    large national museum complex housed in the Forbidden City at the core of Beijing, China. With 720,000 square metres (180 acres), the museum inherited the...
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    remains important in the civic scheme of Beijing. The central north–south axis remains the central axis of Beijing. This axis extends to the south through...
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    This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The record is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo...
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  • including painting. In the early 18th century, Jesuits in China made a request for a painter to be sent to the imperial court in Beijing. Castiglione...
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  • of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years. Prior to the unification of China by the First Emperor in 221 BC, Beijing had...
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    Ink wash painting (simplified Chinese: 水墨画; traditional Chinese: 水墨畫; pinyin: shuǐmòhuà); is a type of Chinese ink brush painting which uses washes of...
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    National Beijing Palace Museum, the Preparatory Office of the National Central Museum, the National Central Library, and the National Beijing Library was...
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    Keran, and Wu Zuoren. On April 5, Beijing Daily published a report on Beijing Hotel's campaign to criticize "black paintings", the report wrote: Comrades from...
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  • Beijing Welcomes You (simplified Chinese: 北京欢迎你; traditional Chinese: 北京歡迎你; pinyin: Běijīng huānyíng nǐ; zhuyin: ㄅㄟˇ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄏㄨㄢ ㄧㄥˊ ㄋㄧˇ) is a feature song...
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  • Dìdi (category Films set in 2008)
    "准备好了吗?北京展映排片表来了,内含重大福利!" [Are you ready? The Beijing screening schedule is here, with great benefits!]. Beijing International Film Festival (in Chinese)....
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  • Execution is a 1995 painting by Chinese artist Yue Minjun. The piece was inspired by the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, although the artist...
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  • Retrieved 2022-08-04. Flower-and-bird painting in ancient China. Xiangping Li, Da Shao, 李向平., 邵达. (Di 1 ban ed.). Beijing: China International Press. 2007...
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    were formerly housed in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Road in Beijing. The Beijing Capital Museum today contains over 200,000 cultural relics in its...
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  • The Founding Ceremony of the Nation (category 1953 paintings)
    in Beijing; Dong took artistic license with the weather. To Mao's left are seen his lieutenants in the Communist takeover. In the original painting, the...
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    August 20, 2009. Yan Chunling, Chinese Red, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, (2008). Eastaugh 2004, p. 387. David Bamford and Ashok Roy, A Closer Look:...
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  • Artists Painting Exhibition (Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing 2012) · Group Jane Meta · National Ten Art Museum Exhibition (China Art Museum, Beijing 2013)...
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  • landscapes he witnessed as a taxi driver, resulting in his series of paintings "Hong Kong Taxi" (2003–2005) and "Hong Kong Street" (2004–2005) rendered...
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  • artist based in Berlin and Beijing. He Xiangyu graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Shenyang Normal University in 2008 with a bachelor's degree...
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    born 1962) is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing, China. He is best known for oil paintings depicting himself in various settings, frozen in laughter...
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    in which he worked in Beijing being demolished in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Since his first solo shows in Beijing in 1998, Liu's work has...
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    asked A Jia, the director of the National Beijing Opera Company, to assist her in transforming the works of Beijing Opera with the modern revolutionary socialist...
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    outskirts of Beijing. As such, it passes through the provinces and municipalities of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, and Beijing. In 2014, the...
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    Chinese painting (simplified Chinese: 中国画; traditional Chinese: 中國畫; pinyin: Zhōngguó huà) is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world...
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  • The Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB) is a Chinese bienniale for international contemporary art, hosted in Beijing. It has taken place since 2003...
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    motifs, which can be embroidered on the dress. The Beijing-style cheongsam originated in Beijing and is fairly traditional and conservative. It is typically...
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  • : 931  In 2008, another new hangar was built to meet the maintenance demand of Airbus A380. In addition to the main facilities in Beijing, Ameco has...
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    Li Shuang (artist) (category Painters from Beijing)
    1957 in Beijing), is a contemporary Chinese artist. Li Shuang's works testify to her painful personal and artistic journey. She grew up in Beijing during...
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