| Title | Creator | Date |
Era |
City | Country | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme | |
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| Trustee from the Toolroom | Author: Nevil Shute | 1960 | United Kingdom |
A feeling of gentleness, kindness and generosity towards good people in the world. |
The importance of pursuing one's personal values. |
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| Psyche | Author: Phyllis Brett Young | 1959 | Canada |
Optimistic, Hopeful, even under terrible circumstances. |
We are beings of self-made soul |
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| Ferrari Dino 246 GT | Designer: Enzo Ferrari | 1969 | Italy |
The world is a place of speed and elegance. |
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| Dangerous Beauty | Director: Marshall Herskovitz | 1998 | United States |
The world is a horrible split of conventional marital morality vs. honest but promiscuous morality. The way to live requires one sacrifice one's body for one's soul. |
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| Euphronios Krater aka Sarpedon Krater | Vase Painter: Euphronios | 515 BC | Greece |
Exquisitely beautiful hardship. |
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| Green fabric | Designer: Mariano Fortuny | circa 1920 | Italy |
Still produced by the Fortuny fabric company. |
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| Burn Notice | Creator: Matt Nix | 2007 | Miami | United States |
Anything can be done if you are smart and motivated enough. |
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| Eiffel Tower | Designer: Gustave Eiffel | 1889 | Paris | France |
The works of Man are thrilling. |
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| Pirelli Calendar Diver | Photographer: Uwe Ommer | 1984 | Italy |
Women can be strong, dynamic and unconsciously beautiful. |
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| Confectionary Basket from Japan, Fukui region | Designer: Anonymous | unknown | Japan |
Life can be dynamic and purposeful and intriguing -- because of the dynamic form and economy of materials and diagonal symmetry of the composition. |
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| Composition with Red Yellow Blue and Black | Painter: Piet Mondrian | 1921 | The Hague | Netherlands |
[Seems mute] |
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| Die Hard | Director: John McTiernan | 1988 July 15 | United States |
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. |
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| Dirty Dancing | Director: Emile Ardolino | 1987 |
Life is passionate and meaningful. |
The joy and passion of love and life and dancing, while learning integrity and independence. |
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| Black Stallion | Director: Carroll Ballard | 1979 | Sardinia | Italy |
Everything is possible between boy and beast, between an innocent human and mother nature. |
Man and nature in harmony. At least this is the theme of the first half of the movie. See "Description" and "Context" info below for more on this comment. |
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| Mad Men | Creator: Matthew Weiner | 2007 | Los Angeles | United States |
Men must sell their souls in order to live, and they are chauvinist pigs to boot. And women are sluts. Dark. |
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| Vitus | Director: Fredi Murer | 2006 |
If you have the will, you can find the way to live the way you want. |
Living your life your own way is the only right way. |
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| Staircase Group (aka Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale) | Painter: Charles Wilson Peale | 1795 | Philadelphia | United States |
Perceiving accurately is important and playing with the artistic medium is fun. |
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| Rose Window - La Sainte-Chapelle (aka The Holy Chapel | Designer: Unknown | 1248 | Paris, Ile de la Cite | France |
The world is open and bright and colorful and gay. |
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| Sainte-Chapelle | Architect: Anonymous | 1248 | Paris, Ile de la Cite | France |
The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly. |
The world is brilliant, light, colorful, orderly. |
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| Chocolat | Director: Lasse Hallstrom | 2000 | United Kingdom |
Pleasure is good; religion and conventional thinking is bad. |
Follow your dream and disregard convention. |
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| Niobe | Sculptor: unknown | c. 200 BC | Rome | Italy |
Human action is beautiful. |
Life is movement. |
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| Real Adventure, The | Author: Henry Kitchell Webster | 1915 | United States |
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. |
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| Ardabil Carpet | Classical Persian School: | 16th century CE | London | United Kingdom |
sumptuous eye candy. |
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| Octopus | Schaefer, Taf Lebel: | 2005 |
Playful. |
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| Chocolate Pitcher and Butter Dish | Villeroy & Boch: | 1930 | Germany |
Friendly warmth (arising from the simple graceful lines, and the unadorned simplicity of the colors without ornament) |
