Creator Title Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Painter: Dewing, Thomas Wilmer Comedia Life is sumptuous and beautiful and alive.

Feminine vivacity and gaiety
Director: Benigni, Roberto Monster, The Just laughter and more of the same.
Myron? Riace Bronze A Man is strong and indomitable

Intelligence, Pride, Strength = Man
Composer: Lehar, Franz Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe) Love brings gaiety and joy to life.

Love can be gay and tender, solemn and lighthearted, painful and joyous.
Painter: Ghirlandaio, Domenico Old Man with a Young Boy Human companionship or family closeness is real.

Quiet familial love. (A grandfather (perhaps) gazing upon a grandson, and vice versa, in a clear moment of happy communion.)
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.
Director: Tran, Anh Hung The Taste of Things

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tentative: the ideal world of physical creation of food shared by soulmates.
Director: Canet, Guillaume Tell No One (aka Ne le dis à personne) Life is sad, and controlled by mysterious corruption.
Maugham, W. Somerset Of Human Bondage Life is a fearful gray spread of actions and in-actions without genuine values. We are all deformed in mind or spirit and should accept convention as demanded by those around us.

Man's life is outside his control. Conventionality is the final ideal.
Creator: Nix, Matt Burn Notice Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough.
Director: Reiner, Rob American President Romance is fun, funny and important.
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.
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.
Landscape Designer: Steele, Fletcher Blue Steps of Naumkeag elegance and grace

The man-made enhances nature -- it is what makes nature beautiful
Designer: Fortuny, Mariano Green fabric Still produced by the Fortuny fabric company.
Designer: Unknown Rose Window - La Sainte-Chapelle (aka The Holy Chapel The world is open and bright and colorful and gay.
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: Caton-Jones, Michael Rob Roy Life is a struggle. The life you make for yourself can be difficult, but living it with strength and morality is the way to live. Happiness is possible in romance.

Heroism in everyday life leads to heroism writ large. A man works hard to lead his life and those of his extended clan in an honorable, productive, honest way. This is the everyday heroism. But dishonorable, evil men seek to steal from him and ruin him. This leads to a life of larger-than-life heroism to vanquish his mortal, and stronger enemies.
Domenichino Head of a Bearded Man Pensive, worried, detached qualities of humanity

Worry is the way of the world.
Director: Hudson, Hugh Chariots of Fire A complete feeling of openness of the world to greatness of your own choosing.

Life is achievement.
Painter: Hosner, William Her Face to the Wind One gets the feeling that the young woman is able to stand strong in the world, with panache and beauty all at once.

Facing life in a fresh, strong, vivacious way.
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.