Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Vance, Louis Joseph Brass Bowl, The The world is a delightful place. Good things happen to the deserving.

Life as a gay, lighthearted adventure.
Director: Daldry, Stephen Billy Elliot Life is dirty but one can clean up.

Go after what you love.
Director: Reiner, Rob American President Romance is fun, funny and important.
White, James Terry Hyacinths to feed thy soul Hopeful. Even in poverty one can have beauty.

Beauty is a form of sustenance
Architect: Wright, Frank Lloyd Robie House The world is open and has sweeping, unending possibilities.

The essence of a house as shelter, and providing a sense of strength and privacy. That is, a structure that exudes strength through its massive cantilever and massive brick and stone forms, along with its big overhangs sheltering the windows to create a sense of privacy and enclosure, in its urban situation.
Rodin, Auguste Shade, The Life is a gruesome trial. There is no hope.

The world destroys man. (Some unknown evil force is destroying this young strong man.) Given that the sculpture is titled as a "Shade" and is related to the Group sculpture "Gates of Hell", one can presume the evil is some unnamed condition that can overpower life and cause destruction of the good.
Painter: Hosner, William Her Face to the Wind One gets the feeling that the young woman is able to stand strong in the world, with panache and beauty all at once.

Facing life in a fresh, strong, vivacious way.
Biviel Design Biviel Shoe BV2773 Feeling: texture and line create a sense of elegance and beauty.
Dancers: Torvill and Dean Flying Fish A heightened sense that Life is fantastically unbounded by daily cares. Life is imbued with unlimited potential and ease of movement.

Life is light and fluid.
Composer: Coward, Noel I'll See You Again Life is bittersweet

Sweet memories of love last forever
Composer: Catalani, Alfredo Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (aria from La Wally)

Longing is the overall emotional tone of the music. The lyric gives reason to this overall tone.

Sadness at having to leave forever the place where you were happy once.
Designer: Tiffany, Louis Comfort Spider Web Narcissi Table Lamp Richness of form, sumptuous shapes.
Director: Ballard, Carroll Black Stallion Everything is possible between boy and beast, between an innocent human and mother nature.

Man and nature in harmony.
At least this is the theme of the first half of the movie. See "Description" and "Context" info below for more on this comment.
Director: Luhrmann, Baz Romeo + Juliet Tragedy is central to life.

Romantic Love is doomed and we don't control our own lives.
Director and Screenwriter: Curtis, Richard Love Actually Romantic love, family love, filial love, and the love of friendship are of central importance to human existence, and are possible to achieve.

Wonderful experiences of love are found in many forms and places.
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.
Hiroshige Senso-ju Temple at Asakusa Pure, simple, quiet tranquility.
Sculptor: Buonarotti, Michelangelo Pieta Resignation in the face of tragedy.

Recognition and acceptance of a great personal loss.
Author: Webster, Henry Kitchell King in Khaki, A Honesty is a noble and practical way of life.

Business acumen produces both material wealth and moral right.

The success of the entrepreneur in this story, along with his relation to all his staff and secondary and tertiary folks on the island who work for him -- makes him into a "king" based on important human relations and the rightness of his decisions that result in a successful business enterprise.

A subsidiary theme might be termed the power of morality over physical power or economic "power".
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.
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.
Author: Lazarus, Emma The New Colossus Benevolent celebration of liberty as a beacon to a troubled world.

A marvelous land of liberty offers welcome to the oppressed of the world.
Architect: Anonymous Sainte-Chapelle The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly.

The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly.
Vase Painter: Euphronios Euphronios Krater aka Sarpedon Krater Exquisitely beautiful hardship.
Rand, Ayn Anthem

The book starts out psychologically dark and disorienting because of the protagonist struggling with the radically collectivist world he was born into.  But what shows even in the early pages, and grows to the climax is the triumphant struggle of a rare few who break free of the yoke of total mind control and become free to live a life as a conceptual human and rediscover what it means to be an individual.  Thrilling and emotionally satisfying (unless the reader is a committed determinist.)

Ego and using one's individual mind is the core of being human.