Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
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".
Painter: Alexander, John White Repose Life is extravagant and lush and sensual.

Feminine Sensuality is a main theme, though one can argue that a related (equal theme or sub-theme) is: The Lushness of the Material World. The dramatic draped womanly figure pressing against a divan, whose figure is clearly oulined, shares the visual dominance of the painting along with the magnificent sweeps of her dress and the giant pillows, the massive backrest, and even the strong elements of the floor material and the golden back wall. All together a remarkable composition.
Painter: Veronese, Paolo Wisdom and Strength Sumptuousness is good, and the human form is good.
Sculptor: Buonarotti, Michelangelo Pieta Resignation in the face of tragedy.

Recognition and acceptance of a great personal loss.
Villeroy & Boch Chocolate Pitcher and Butter Dish Friendly warmth (arising from the simple graceful lines, and the unadorned simplicity of the colors without ornament)
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.
Vase Painter: Euphronios Euphronios Krater aka Sarpedon Krater Exquisitely beautiful hardship.
Designer: Rouff, Maggy Helene Arpels Dress Elegance and richness of detail
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."
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
Domenichino Head of a Bearded Man Pensive, worried, detached qualities of humanity

Worry is the way of the world.
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.
Vance, Louis Joseph Brass Bowl, The The world is a delightful place. Good things happen to the deserving.

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

Go after what you love.
Sculptor: Saint-Gaudens, Auguste Diana Serenity in action. But not a strong world view in any case, quite placid.
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.
Landscape Designer: Steele, Fletcher Blue Steps of Naumkeag elegance and grace

The man-made enhances nature -- it is what makes nature beautiful
Composer: Warren and Dubin Boulevard of Broken Dreams Weariness & Sadness

Life is loss of dreams and sadness
Director: Canet, Guillaume Tell No One (aka Ne le dis à personne) Life is sad, and controlled by mysterious corruption.
Composer: Lerner and Loewe Camelot One must attempt to live by values, even though virtue is powerless and hopeless.

Camelot: a medieval place of goodness and justice, and its inevitable failure.
Designer: Anonymous Confectionary Basket from Japan, Fukui region Life can be dynamic and purposeful and intriguing -- because of the dynamic form and economy of materials and diagonal symmetry of the composition.
Alexander, John Trees A sense of the world as dynamic and strong.

Nature is wild and dynamic.
Painter: Van Rijn, Rembrandt Feast of Belshazzar The only way to know the sense of life or world view of the painting is through it's history, since the image is very mixed. Shows an opulent and sumptuous world, but the people are obviously distressed over something. Assuming one knows its history, you could conclude it is an exercise in depicting the dangers of the worldly pursuits and wealth.
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.