Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Playwright: Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac Life can be exciting. Life can be grand, literally.
There is also some great sadness about consummated love, since it is portrayed as unreachable.

The importance of independence and independent thought. Compromise is deadly to one's soul.
Sub-themes: a) Doubt of one's goodness because of an incidental fact (physical feature) is terribly damaging and tragic. b) Helping someone by faking reality is damaging and can come to no good.

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.

Biviel Design Biviel Shoe BV2773 Feeling: texture and line create a sense of elegance and beauty.
Sculptor: Saint-Gaudens, Auguste Diana Serenity in action. But not a strong world view in any case, quite placid.
Director: Hallstrom, Lasse Chocolat Pleasure is good; religion and conventional thinking is bad.

Follow your dream and disregard convention.

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.

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.
Vase Painter: Euphronios Euphronios Krater aka Sarpedon Krater Exquisitely beautiful hardship.
Director: Benigni, Roberto Monster, The Just laughter and more of the same.
Classical Persian School Ardabil Carpet sumptuous eye candy.
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

Painter: Dewing, Thomas Wilmer Comedia Life is sumptuous and beautiful and alive.

Feminine vivacity and gaiety

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.

Architect: Anonymous Sainte-Chapelle The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly.

The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly.

Creator: Nix, Matt Burn Notice Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough.
Author: Steinbeck, John East of Eden Life is filled with great and important choices.

The battle between good and evil, guilt and innocence. Takes the position that we are influenced by many things, but ultimately we have free will.

Director: Reiner, Rob American President Romance is fun, funny and important.
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.

Hiroshige Senso-ju Temple at Asakusa Pure, simple, quiet tranquility.
De Felitta, Raymond City Island Anxiety and pain from all the lies and mistaken motives. Catharsis from the climax, leading to feelings of wanting to be truthful in life!

Lying is not the way to live.

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.