| Creator | Title | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architect: Anonymous | Sainte-Chapelle | The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly. | The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly. |
| Playwright: Shakespeare, William | Othello: the Moor of Venice | Malevolence and horrible tragedy is unrelieved. Evil is potent. |
A great man can be gullible and controlled by an evil character. Or, an evil character can have potency in the world, because of the weakness of a good man.<br> |
| Director: Murer, Fredi | Vitus | If you have the will, you can find the way to live the way you want. | Living your life your own way is the only right way. |
| Director: Reiner, Rob | A Few Good Men | Justice should be fought for, needs to be fought for and can be fragile. |
Commitment to a moral code is central to a good man's life. |
| Sculptor: Tuby, Jean Baptiste (1630-1700) | Chariot of Apollo | The world has thrilling powerful men of action. There are no limits to what can be achieved. |
Elegant, physical power. The fantasy ability to fly through water and air with grace and ease.<br> |
| Draftsman: Boscoli, Andrea | Horse Seen from Behind | Not much except perhaps stylistic -- confident, strong drafting style, and a vibrant, alive, horse. | |
| Author: Webster, Henry Kitchell | Real Adventure, The | Life is wonderful as long as you realize that life has to be earned the hard way. | Creating your *self* is the only way to live. |
| Writer: Coward, Noel | Design for Living | Life can be giddy and bright. Facing up to one's anti-conventional values is important. Conventional morality must be questioned if it causes suffering and conflict. |
You should follow your deepest values and accept them no matter how unconventional the outcome. A rare combination of the wittiest, lightest of Noel Coward's style, along with deeper themes of romantic love, proper morality and how should one live. |
| Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig | Symphony no. X | test |
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| Architect: Sullivan, Louis | National Farmers' Bank | Being able to breath freely -- expansively, and feeling that there are no limits to what man can do. | The world is expansively, infinitely rich. |
| Author: Shute, Nevil | Far Country, The | Life can be bright, happy and successful, but hard decisions must be faced and dealt with. | A good and happy life is made up of self-directed actions, self-chosen goals. A less important theme is: |
| Sculptor: Fedi, Pio | Rape of Polyxena, The | Strength and complex beauty are central. Vitality, passion and action are hallmarks of this work. |
Life is complex strife, entwined with strong god-like characters. |
| Painter: Tito, Ettore | La Gomena (Towing a Boat) | There is great effort in life, and a woman can be the master of it. This painting is a curious combination of romantic heroism and 19th century genre naturalism. It has a visual dynamism and dramatic content that is strongly romantic, yet the subject is the prosaic task of pulling a boat out of the water. |
The will and the power of a woman. Implacable determination. |
| Creator: Weiner, Matthew | Mad Men | Men must sell their souls in order to live, and they are chauvinist pigs to boot. And women are sluts. Dark. | |
| Director: Stanton, Andrew | Wall-E | The world is garbage, and more garbage and humans have destroyed the earth, because of their wanton consumerism. | Mankind is a blight on the universe, and only cute robots (as opposed to evil robots) can save the earth from human degradation. |
| Designer: Fortuny, Mariano | Green fabric | Still produced by the Fortuny fabric company. | |
| Classical Persian School | Ardabil Carpet | sumptuous eye candy. | |
| Director: Hudson, Hugh | Greystoke | Life is Loss -- life is grim and culture is grim and the jungle is grim. All is grim. The other important feature of the film emotionally is that Tarzan has been crippled by his circumstances of being brought up in the jungle -- he cannot live as a man, so the great tragedy of the story is that he has to return to the jungle, which is below primitive -- it is an isolated hell in which death is at every corner, and at best the companionship of apes. Given that the story partly portrays civilized men as brutes who relish killing animals, perhaps the emotional intent is to make the choice to return to the jungle as positive, but for this reviewer it is unutterably tragic and ugly. |
Loss, Loss, Loss. Man as metaphysically alien from human culture. |
| Designer: Rouff, Maggy | Helene Arpels Dress | Elegance and richness of detail | |
| Sculptor: Saint-Gaudens, Auguste | Diana | Serenity in action. But not a strong world view in any case, quite placid. | |
| Composer: Warren and Dubin | Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Weariness & Sadness | Life is loss of dreams and sadness |
| Shute, Nevil | Landfall | Heroes and Heroines are self-made, by anyone at any level of intelligence who seriously pursues what is important in their lives. |
Truth will triumph -- with perseverance. |
| Designer: Tiffany, Louis Comfort | Spider Web Narcissi Table Lamp | Richness of form, sumptuous shapes. | |
| Director: Caton-Jones, Michael | Rob Roy | Life is a struggle. The life you make for yourself can be difficult, but living it with strength and morality is the way to live. Happiness is possible in romance. | Heroism in everyday life leads to heroism writ large. A man works hard to lead his life and those of his extended clan in an honorable, productive, honest way. This is the everyday heroism. But dishonorable, evil men seek to steal from him and ruin him. This leads to a life of larger-than-life heroism to vanquish his mortal, and stronger enemies. |
| Loysel, Jacques | La Grande Nevrose | The dynamic female body is beautiful and exciting. Although it may not explicitly suggest it, the nude and its tense position could be felt as erotic. | An animated female body is a vessel of perfection. |