Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Painter: Veronese, Paolo Wisdom and Strength Sumptuousness is good, and the human form is good.
Vance, Louis Joseph Brass Bowl, The The world is a delightful place. Good things happen to the deserving.

Life as a gay, lighthearted adventure.
Creator: Nix, Matt Burn Notice Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough.
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.
Henrik Ibsen The Lady from the Sea

the glow of happiness that follows from realizing that your life is your own to create, and that only you can do that; and the realization of how much you have to gain or lose from taking that self-responsibility.

Theme: all of life’s values come from – and can only come from – one’s free choice. Free – of any outside coercion, or any outside attempt to make the choices for you, and free of any self-imposed motives not grounded in your own complete freedom to choose. Without that total freedom to choose, life is empty.
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
Designer: Eiffel, Gustave Eiffel Tower The works of Man are thrilling.
Landscape Designer: Steele, Fletcher Blue Steps of Naumkeag elegance and grace

The man-made enhances nature -- it is what makes nature beautiful
Alexander Mackendrick, Director The Ladykillers

All is right with the world because virtuous people prevail over evil people. Evil people simply destroy themselves, and innocence strengthens you.

Evil is impotent. Secondary theme: you can’t cheat an honest lady.

 
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.
Designer: Rouff, Maggy Helene Arpels Dress Elegance and richness of detail
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.
Director: Ardolino, Emile Dirty Dancing Life is passionate and meaningful.

The joy and passion of love and life and dancing, while learning integrity and independence.
Painter: Carlsen, Emil The Samovar The world is full of textural richness worth looking at.

The richness of light and the objects it caresses.&nbsp; This is a paean to the richness of visual experience, but with the simplest of materials -- just a light source and two kinds of simple unadorned objects.<br>
Sculptor: Saint-Gaudens, Auguste Diana Serenity in action. But not a strong world view in any case, quite placid.
Designer: Otar, John Covered Box Fun; complexity made from simplicity
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.
Franz Liszt Benediction of God in Solitude

There is no conflict in the world, only sublime movement toward achievement of supreme values. The conclusion says, “You never had to worry: it was all there for you."
Sculptor: Buonarotti, Michelangelo David Man is a strong, indomitable creature who has the intelligence to overcome terrible odds.

[requires assumption of some context of this work -- not a "cold" introduction to it]: A man able to face a daunting task, with tremulous calm and determination. This is the depiction of the David/Goliath story of the Bible in which David takes on the much more formidable Goliath and wins.
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.
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.
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.
Playwright: Shakespeare, William Much Ado About Nothing Sweetness and light and beauty are what the world is made of.
Sculptor: unknown Niobe Human action is beautiful.

Life is movement.
Sculptor: Agesander Laocoon (Laocoön and His Sons) Life is a desperate, agonizing struggle.

The heroic but agonizing defeat of Men. This sculpture certainly represents at the same time the heroic nature of men but cast into an impossible situation that can only be tragic.