Special Issue January 2016 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 http://www.ijhcs.com/index.php/ijhcs/index Page 1029 Explicit and Implied Denotation Analysis of the Pattern of Motifs of Holy Mir Motahar (AS) Shrin 1 Atieh Youzbashi Master of visual communication, Faculty of Art, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran Responsible writer: atiehyouzbashi@yahoo.com Parviz Eghbali Assistant Professor of Faculty of Art, Shahed University, Tehran city, Iran Abstract Getting to know the Imamzadeh (shrine) and its features will lead to the recognition of semiology, in semiology, the meaning of explicit and implied is concepts of some facts. The meaning of explicit is described with a phrase such as “definition” <Literal meaning>, <evident meaning> or < the meaning are based on received by common sense>. “Implied meaning” refers to its hidden meaning. The way of making research is based on descriptive and analytical nature and the data collecting is synthetic. The sampling is non-random (selective) and there are seven plant patterns of Damavand city of Tehran province and analysis of information are qualitative. In this study after a review of various kind of motifs used in the holy shrine of Mir Motahat (AS) shrine, the amount of these pattern confusion are revealed by semiotic concepts and its explicit and implied meaning are stated. At first the basic articles regarding to semiology are addressed, then the holy shrine of Mir Motahar (AS) has been introduced. Motifs and its features is included in tables and three pattern were discussed. This article is standing to check the figures of visual patterns, traditional roots and symbolic meaning of motifs. Keywords: Motifs, Semiology, Chandler, Explicit and Implied Denotation, Holy Shrine of Mir Motahat (AS), Absard, Damavand city. 1 This Article is extracted from AtiehYouzbashi masters dissertation, visual connection with the title “Semiology study of Shrine geometric patterns of Damavand city of Tehran province, Faculty of Art, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, December 2014”