| Creator | Title | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author: Young, Phyllis Brett | Psyche | Optimistic, Hopeful, even under terrible circumstances. |
We are beings of self-made soul<br> |
| Designer: Esherick, Wharton | Fireplace and Door | Very orderly exuberance, via "explosive" geometry | |
| 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> |
| Designer: Unknown | Rose Window - La Sainte-Chapelle (aka The Holy Chapel | The world is open and bright and colorful and gay. | |
| Director: Benigni, Roberto | Monster, The | Just laughter and more of the same. | |
| Loysel, Jacques | La Grande Nevrose | The dynamic female body is beautiful and exciting. Although it may not explicitly suggest it, the nude and its tense position could be felt as erotic. | An animated female body is a vessel of perfection. |
| 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". |
| Vance, Louis Joseph | Brass Bowl, The | The world is a delightful place. Good things happen to the deserving. | Life as a gay, lighthearted adventure. |
| 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. |
| Sculptor: unknown | Niobe | Human action is beautiful. | Life is movement. |
| Architect: Anonymous | Sainte-Chapelle | The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly. | The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly. |
| Designer: Sullivan, Louis Henri | System of Architectural Ornament, A | The world is a place of infinite, ordered, geometric, fluid possibilities. | |
| Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig | Symphony no. X | test |
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| 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. |
| Myron? | Riace Bronze A | Man is strong and indomitable | Intelligence, Pride, Strength = Man |
| Director: Reiner, Rob | American President | Romance is fun, funny and important. | |
| Painter: Veronese, Paolo | Wisdom and Strength | Sumptuousness is good, and the human form is good. | |
| Painter: Carlsen, Emil | The Samovar | The world is full of textural richness worth looking at. |
The richness of light and the objects it caresses. 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> |
| Author: Lazarus, Emma | The New Colossus | Benevolent celebration of liberty as a beacon to a troubled world. | A marvelous land of liberty offers welcome to the oppressed of the world. |
| Dancers: Torvill and Dean | Bolero | Harmony, grace exist. | Two people as one. |
| 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. | |
| 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> |
| Director: Tran, Anh Hung | The Taste of Things | test test test test |
tentative: the ideal world of physical creation of food shared by soulmates. |
| 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. |
| Alexander, John | Trees | A sense of the world as dynamic and strong. | Nature is wild and dynamic. |