Creator | Title | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme |
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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. |
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: Ardolino, Emile | Dirty Dancing | Life is passionate and meaningful. | The joy and passion of love and life and dancing, while learning integrity and independence. |
Composer: Handman, Lou | Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Sensuality and bitterness | The remembrance of past love. |
Singing Group: Soviet Army Chorus and Band | Sports March | Happiness triumphs. | The power of joy to motivate action. |
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. |
Photographer: Ommer, Uwe | Pirelli Calendar Diver | Women can be strong, dynamic and unconsciously beautiful. | |
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. |
Director: Canet, Guillaume | Tell No One (aka Ne le dis à personne) | Life is sad, and controlled by mysterious corruption. | |
Blum, Robert Frederick | Moods to Music | Life is colorful and glorious. |
Pure joy of movement and femininity. |
Architect: Guarini, Guarino | Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo (Royal Church of St. Lawrence) | The world is perfected. The joy of seeing complexity that is simplicity, i.e., that the rich complex vision arises from simple elements which because of their arrangement provide layers of visual thrills. | Complex, soaring geometric order. |
Painter: Leyendecker, J.C. | Day at the Beach | Fun and cuteness. | |
Alexander, John | Trees | A sense of the world as dynamic and strong. | Nature is wild and dynamic. |
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. |
Director: Reiner, Rob | American President | Romance is fun, funny and important. | |
Biviel Design | Biviel Shoe BV2773 | Feeling: texture and line create a sense of elegance and beauty. | |
Architect: Wright, Frank Lloyd | Johnson Wax Building | Day to day life can be exalted and pleasurable. |
To Work should be a condition of grandeur and joy.<br> |
Screenwriter: Coward, Noel | Brief Encounter | Passionate love. Tragic choices. | High romance is possible. Such love is unlikely to survive. |
Painter: Mondrian, Piet | Composition with Red Yellow Blue and Black | [Seems mute] | |
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: Powell, Dick | Enemy Below, The | War is deadly and destructive for all parties. | |
Draftsman: Boscoli, Andrea | Horse Seen from Behind | Not much except perhaps stylistic -- confident, strong drafting style, and a vibrant, alive, horse. | |
Architect: Unknown | Burgos Cathedral Crossing | God is order and reason and light. | The spirit of god is rational, uplifting and rich in detail |
Director: Benigni, Roberto | Monster, The | Just laughter and more of the same. | |
Dancers: Torvill and Dean | Bolero | Harmony, grace exist. | Two people as one. |