Word: motifs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heddinger's eerie lighting, the women's bodies seem to glow from within. They glide solemnly across the stage, occasionally sinking to the floor or collapsing into one another's arms. Sometimes they pause in a dreamy tableaux, their arms reaching toward the heavens. At times, however, the religious motif becomes too heavy-handed, as when six women lift the seventh into a distinct crucifixion pose and walk reverently in a circle with her body...
...sculpted dining room of Red Sage, his $5.2 million, 18,800- sq.-ft. Western-style restaurant in Washington. Red Sage, which opened in January and is already booked weeks in advance, is an updated, upscale evocation of the American West rendered in buttery leather banquettes, panoramic murals and buffalo-motif chandeliers. In the street-level bar, cocktails are served with swizzle sticks that look like barbed wire, while on the ceiling a canopy of white plaster clouds floats across a starry night sky. "The world looks at America, and it thinks about the West," says Miller, who taught anthropology...
Wallace-Crabbe also uses color as a motif to vividly paint a picture of the Australian vista. He noted that even when he is not describing nature, Australia's rich colors--red, gold, ochre, fawn--make their way into his poetry...
Well, the real theme is not so much the ecological qualities of the brown crumbly stuff as the internment value of it. For example "Rain When I Die," "Down in a Hole" and "Them Bones" all express the rather somber motif elicited by the Chain crew...
...problem lies in the disembodiment. Matisse was no more an abstract artist than Picasso. No abstract painter can claim descent from their work without acknowledging that fact. The worldly motif, especially the human body, and in particular the female body, was as basic to Matisse's art as it had been to Delacroix's or Titian's. His paintings vividly communicate a tension between what he called "the sign" and the reality it pointed...