| Creator | Title | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme |
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| Classical Persian School | Ardabil Carpet | sumptuous eye candy. | |
| Designer: Rouff, Maggy | Helene Arpels Dress | Elegance and richness of detail | |
| Director: Coppola Francis Ford | Godfather | Life demands death; life is a horror of killing and retribution. Life is tragedy and malevolence | Behind beauty and success lies corruption and death. |
| Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig | Symphony no. X | test |
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| Landscape Designer: Steele, Fletcher | Blue Steps of Naumkeag | elegance and grace | The man-made enhances nature -- it is what makes nature beautiful |
| 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. |
| Director: Korda Alexander | Rembrandt | Life is hard as an independent spirit, and wealth will elude you, but you will be happy, after a fashion. | |
| 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. |
| Painter: Tito, Ettore | La Gomena (Towing a Boat) | There is great effort in life, and a woman can be the master of it. This painting is a curious combination of romantic heroism and 19th century genre naturalism. It has a visual dynamism and dramatic content that is strongly romantic, yet the subject is the prosaic task of pulling a boat out of the water. |
The will and the power of a woman. Implacable determination. |
| Director: Hudson, Hugh | Chariots of Fire | A complete feeling of openness of the world to greatness of your own choosing. | Life is achievement. |
| 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. |
| Alexander, John | Trees | A sense of the world as dynamic and strong. | Nature is wild and dynamic. |
| Playwright: Shakespeare, William | Much Ado About Nothing | Sweetness and light and beauty are what the world is made of. | |
| Director: Hudson, Hugh | Greystoke | Life is Loss -- life is grim and culture is grim and the jungle is grim. All is grim. The other important feature of the film emotionally is that Tarzan has been crippled by his circumstances of being brought up in the jungle -- he cannot live as a man, so the great tragedy of the story is that he has to return to the jungle, which is below primitive -- it is an isolated hell in which death is at every corner, and at best the companionship of apes. Given that the story partly portrays civilized men as brutes who relish killing animals, perhaps the emotional intent is to make the choice to return to the jungle as positive, but for this reviewer it is unutterably tragic and ugly. |
Loss, Loss, Loss. Man as metaphysically alien from human culture. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
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| Photographer: Ommer, Uwe | Pirelli Calendar Diver | Women can be strong, dynamic and unconsciously beautiful. | |
| Director: Benigni, Roberto | Monster, The | Just laughter and more of the same. | |
| Director: Parker, Alan | Fame | Life is hard, but you can succeed, and it is worth it and exhilarating. | Go after your heart's desire. |
| Designer: Eiffel, Gustave | Eiffel Tower | The works of Man are thrilling. | |
| Sculptor: Buonarotti, Michelangelo | Pieta | Resignation in the face of tragedy. | Recognition and acceptance of a great personal loss. |
| Painter: Dewing, Thomas Wilmer | Comedia | Life is sumptuous and beautiful and alive. | Feminine vivacity and gaiety |
| Sculptor: Tuby, Jean Baptiste (1630-1700) | Chariot of Apollo | The world has thrilling powerful men of action. There are no limits to what can be achieved. |
Elegant, physical power. The fantasy ability to fly through water and air with grace and ease.<br> |
| Miron - Parish | Tzena Tzena Tzena | Joyous celebration | Joyous celebration |
| Biviel Design | Biviel Shoe BV2773 | Feeling: texture and line create a sense of elegance and beauty. |