We are using traditional materials and motifs in a new way".
Morandi would likewise paint motifs in a series but the changes areof position.
Matthew Brannon's prints mix art, language and advertising and design motifs in a Manhattan-in-the-'50s style.
With its key figures reappearing like motifs in a symphony, "The Rest Is Noise" is a considerable feat of orchestration and arrangement.
Andrew, a dapper, taciturn Scot who can charitably be described as enterprising, purchased blank plates from local companies and hand-painted them with Ku Klux Klan motifs in a studio behind his house.
Instead of smothering a film in music and providing a catchy hummable theme (as per Tara's Theme from Gone with the Wind), Herrmann offered a series of evocative motifs in a cornucopia of music styles.
Mr. Lin marches to his own choreographic drumbeat, merging Western contemporary dance and traditional Asian motifs in a style that also calls to mind the rooted, emotionally committed modern dance of other years.
He also played with shifts in scale and technique employing, for example, grisaille and full colour and juxtaposed a number of disparate motifs in a single canvas.
Dumbo's big-top setting may have proven attractive: the film-maker has used circus motifs in a number of his movies, including the Red Triangle Circus Gang in superhero sequel Batman Returns and the Calloway Circus in Big Fish.
For starters, the safari-themed jackets and khaki jumpsuits reflected not a style so much as the freedom to use those motifs in a less predictable way.
Salle is known for mixing modes of representation and appropriated ready-made motifs in a single canvas, suggesting but defying any legible narrative.
