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In art, a motif is a repeated idea, pattern, image, or theme. Visual motifs are a language to communicate visual ideas.[1] Paisley designs are referred to as motifs. Many designs in mosques in Islamic culture are motifs, including those of the sun, moon, animals such as horses and lions, flowers, and landscapes. Motifs can have emotional effects and be used for propoganda.[2]
Visual motifs can also be used to organize material for presentation. For example, Subhankar Banerjee used the visual motifs of color, aminals (birds, caribou, whales fish) and substance harvesting practice he calls "bent posture". He says that the political impact of the images influenced his choices.[3]
Visual motifs are used in film to establish a mood, such as film noir.[1][4]
Motifs may have iconographic significance within a work of art.
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Illustration from The Grammar of Ornament (1856)
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- ^ a b (2004) Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir By Alain Silver and James Ursini ISBN 0879101970
- ^ Motifs in Jihadi Internet Propaganda (PDF)
- ^ Three Conceptual Visual Motifs by Subhankar Banerjee, retrieved 2010-02-29 (PDF) Document view
- ^ (1974) Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir by Janey Place & Lowell Peterson
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