Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Domenichino Head of a Bearded Man Pensive, worried, detached qualities of humanity

Worry is the way of the world.
Rudyard Kipling The Ballad of East and West

When two sworn opponents recognize each other’s heroic qualities, their enmity dissolves. We feel inspired to see that  intelligent and courageous men can recognize what is truly fundamental in the character of each individual.

Though different cultures may be fundamentally opposed, two individuals from such opposites may fully transcend those differences and respect each other for their virtues.
Creator: Nix, Matt Burn Notice Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough.
Director: McCarey, Leo Ruggles of Red Gap Happiness and fulfillment is in yourself.

Personal declaration of independence from servitude
Director: Herskovitz, Marshall Dangerous Beauty The world is a horrible split of conventional marital morality vs. honest but promiscuous morality. The way to live requires one sacrifice one's body for one's soul.

1. The importance of accepting your own rules for living, your own morality.
2. The grim metaphysical conflict for a Venetian woman of being a slave to a husband or a free woman requiring sexual work.
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.
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.
Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig Symphony no. X

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Director: Hudson, Hugh Chariots of Fire A complete feeling of openness of the world to greatness of your own choosing.

Life is achievement.
Author: Shute, Nevil Trustee from the Toolroom A feeling of gentleness, kindness and generosity towards good people in the world.

The importance of pursuing one's personal values.<br>
Designer: Eiffel, Gustave Eiffel Tower The works of Man are thrilling.
Screenwriter: Coward, Noel Brief Encounter Passionate love. Tragic choices.

High romance is possible. Such love is unlikely to survive.
This film manages to embrace two contradictory themes, leading to a major bittersweet outcome.
Director: Kurosawa, Akira Rashomon The world is terrible and full of disasters and mankind is awful and pathetic.

Objectivity is a myth -- everyone sees a different reality, a different "story".
Composer: Lehar, Franz Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe) Love brings gaiety and joy to life.

Love can be gay and tender, solemn and lighthearted, painful and joyous.
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".
Vase Painter: Euphronios Euphronios Krater aka Sarpedon Krater Exquisitely beautiful hardship.
Painter: Leyendecker, J.C. Day at the Beach Fun and cuteness.
Director: Stone, Oliver Wall Street

There are bad people in power who use ordinary people as pawns in their endless pursuit of money.  Those who are not ruthless are sheep to be slaughtered by the rich and powerful.  Greed is bad.
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.
Biviel Design Biviel Shoe BV2773 Feeling: texture and line create a sense of elegance and beauty.
Designer: Esherick, Wharton Fireplace and Door Very orderly exuberance, via "explosive" geometry
Painter: Dewing, Thomas Wilmer Comedia Life is sumptuous and beautiful and alive.

Feminine vivacity and gaiety
Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe Attila (live performance) Life is a mix of strength, heroism, romantic passion.

The work is a long complex opera, so it has many other lyrical emotions as part of it, but this covers the basic sense of life.

Loving a heroic woman leads to death
Director: De Felitta, Raymond Two Family House Feelings of benevolence and optimism about life. Happiness comes from making choices for your own good.

Going after what you want in life; Don't be stopped by conventional standards of the people around you. It takes courage to be selfish.
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.