Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Director: Benigni, Roberto Monster, The Just laughter and more of the same.
Painter: Leyendecker, J.C. Day at the Beach Fun and cuteness.
Schaefer, Taf Lebel Octopus Playful.
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.
Designer: Fortuny, Mariano Green fabric Still produced by the Fortuny fabric company.
Sculptor: Buonarotti, Michelangelo Pieta Resignation in the face of tragedy.

Recognition and acceptance of a great personal loss.
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.
Ohara, Shoson Crane Under the Rain Life is difficult.
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.
Author: Webster, Henry Kitchell Real Adventure, The Life is wonderful as long as you realize that life has to be earned the hard way.

Creating your *self* is the only way to live.
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.
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."
Director: Luhrmann, Baz Romeo + Juliet Tragedy is central to life.

Romantic Love is doomed and we don't control our own lives.
Author: Shute, Nevil Far Country, The Life can be bright, happy and successful, but hard decisions must be faced and dealt with.

A good and happy life is made up of self-directed actions, self-chosen goals.

A less important theme is:
Freedom from government control.
Whether the government control results from devastating wars, or from socialist control of medical care, freedom is to be sought and prized.
Landscape Designer: Steele, Fletcher Blue Steps of Naumkeag elegance and grace

The man-made enhances nature -- it is what makes nature beautiful
White, James Terry Hyacinths to feed thy soul Hopeful. Even in poverty one can have beauty.

Beauty is a form of sustenance
Director: McTiernan, John Die Hard The way to beat evil is to give no quarter, no compromise. Life is hard, but fighting for the right is rewarded.

Giving up in life is not an option.
Director: Zinnemann, Fred High Noon There is palpable evil in the world. There is heroism in the face of evil in the world. The movie is full of fear and foreboding and betrayal.

Civil Society is the ideal, and worth fighting for. Doing what is right is the right way to live. Don't let the evil bastards win. The theme is expressed repeatedly in the movie via the contrast of the Marshall who grimly faces the need to do what he lives for, despite the death facing him, vs. the mealy mouthed town folk, many of which who won't fight for their civil society, and vs. the deputy marshall who portrays the sellout who will give into evil force in order to "get along".
Composer: Coward, Noel I'll See You Again Life is bittersweet

Sweet memories of love last forever
Rand, Ayn Anthem

The book starts out psychologically dark and disorienting because of the protagonist struggling with the radically collectivist world he was born into.  But what shows even in the early pages, and grows to the climax is the triumphant struggle of a rare few who break free of the yoke of total mind control and become free to live a life as a conceptual human and rediscover what it means to be an individual.  Thrilling and emotionally satisfying (unless the reader is a committed determinist.)

Ego and using one's individual mind is the core of being human.
Alexander, John Trees A sense of the world as dynamic and strong.

Nature is wild and dynamic.
Composer: Catalani, Alfredo Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (aria from La Wally)

Longing is the overall emotional tone of the music. The lyric gives reason to this overall tone.

Sadness at having to leave forever the place where you were happy once.
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>
Designer: Rouff, Maggy Helene Arpels Dress Elegance and richness of detail