Word: motifs
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...sense of embattlement and persecution is a motif of the Christian personality But the Christians' sense of being unde siege in their own land did not begin in the past decade. From the Byzantine and the Crusades in the Middle Ages to the French and Americans in 1984, the Christians have repeatedly relied on foreign powers to guarantee their survival and political power...
...pantsuit for day and the androgynous "smoking" for night, boots, turtlenecks, sporty furs. Picasso keeps reappearing, usually in witty design quotations. So do plaids; in 1979, Saint Laurent's heart went deep into the Scottish Highlands, and he made a formidable, fanciful rig. Except for his Mondrian motif, Saint Laurent was not comfortable with minis; the late '60s belonged to André Courrèges. In fact, despite the influence of specific designs, Saint Laurent has not always led a crowd. He raised skirts in 1959, five years too soon. He lowered them in 1964, when the mini...
...many ogling 15-year-old girls to the cinema, producers seemed to recognize that there was more to appeal to in a teenage film than hormones. Risks Business exhibited promise beyond the usual hackneyed dialogue and childish antics, to which teenage audiences are so accustomed. Its well-developed fantasy motif, more importantly, indicated that producers finally may be getting away from the temptation of marketing flesh for flesh's sake...
...view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, is a connoisseur of this kind of unease. There are exhibitions that mark a full assumption of powers: the idiom is assembled, the grammar wrought, the experiences wholly understood. So it is with this show of Bartlett's, whose unlikely motif is a dull little French garden, and whose prevailing mood is an exacerbated sense of attentiveness, suspense and imbalance...
...stand among images of the physical world but ends up looking quite unconcerned with them. He paints bathers, bottles or trees upside down, without offering a moment's access of feeling to this body, this vessel, this plant. His art is all generalization. Baselitz, 45, calls his subjects motifs, and that is what a motif is-a repeatable module on which an act of painting can be displayed. You take a motif and rough it up; then you take another motif and rough that up in much the same way: a potentially infinite series. It is not surprising that...