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Creator | Date | Era | City | Country | Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) | Theme | |
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| City Island | De Felitta, Raymond: | 2009 | 1991-2010 | New York | United States |
Anxiety and pain from all the lies and mistaken motives. Catharsis from the climax, leading to feelings of wanting to be truthful in life! |
Lying is not the way to live. |
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| Comedia | Painter: Thomas Wilmer Dewing | 1892-4c | 1800s | Philadelphia | United States |
Life is sumptuous and beautiful and alive. |
Feminine vivacity and gaiety |
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| Composition with Red Yellow Blue and Black | Painter: Piet Mondrian | 1921 | The Hague | Netherlands |
[Seems mute] |
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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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| Covered Box | Designer: John Otar | 1930 | 1901-2000 | Santa Cruz, CA | United States |
Fun; complexity made from simplicity |
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| Crane Under the Rain | Ohara, Shoson: | 1928 | 1900s | Japan |
Life is difficult. |
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| Cyrano de Bergerac | Playwright: Edmond Rostand | 1897 | 1900s | France |
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. |
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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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| David | Sculptor: Michelangelo Buonarotti | 1504 | 1500s | Florence | Italy |
Man is a strong, indomitable creature who has the intelligence to overcome terrible odds. |
[requires assumption of some context of this work -- not a "cold" introduction to it]: A man able to face a daunting task, with tremulous calm and determination. This is the depiction of the David/Goliath story of the Bible in which David takes on the much more formidable Goliath and wins. |
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| Day at the Beach | Painter: J.C. Leyendecker | 1932 | 1900s | United States |
Fun and cuteness. |
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| Design for Living | Writer: Noel Coward | 1932 | 1900s | United Kingdom |
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. |
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| Diana | Sculptor: Auguste Saint-Gaudens | 1892 | 1900s | New York | United States |
Serenity in action. But not a strong world view in any case, quite placid. |
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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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| East of Eden | Author: John Steinbeck | 1952 | 1951 - 2000 | United States |
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. |
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| Eiffel Tower | Designer: Gustave Eiffel | 1889 | Paris | France |
The works of Man are thrilling. |
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| Enemy Below, The | Director: Dick Powell | 1957 | 1951-1970 | United States |
War is deadly and destructive for all parties. |
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| Etudes | Choreographer: Harold Lander | 1948 | Pre-1950 Ballet/Dance | New York | United States |
Thrilling pleasure at beautiful movement and great success at developing the best within you. |
Hard work results in great achievement in life -- and that results in beauty and excitement in life. |
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| Euphronios Krater aka Sarpedon Krater | Vase Painter: Euphronios | 515 BC | Greece |
Exquisitely beautiful hardship. |
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| Fame | Director: Alan Parker | 1980 | 1971-1990 | New York | United States |
Life is hard, but you can succeed, and it is worth it and exhilarating. |
Go after your heart's desire. |
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| Far Country, The | Author: Nevil Shute | 1952 | 1951 - 2000 | Australia |
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: |
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| Feast of Belshazzar | Painter: Rembrandt Van Rijn | 1635c. | 1600s | London | United Kingdom |
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. |
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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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| Fireplace and Door | Designer: Wharton Esherick | 1936c. | 1901-2000 | Philadelphia | United States |
Very orderly exuberance, via "explosive" geometry |
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| Flying Fish | Dancers: Torvill and Dean | c.1995 (verify) | 1990-2009 | NY NY | United States |
A heightened sense that Life is fantastically unbounded by daily cares. Life is imbued with unlimited potential and ease of movement. |
Life is light and fluid. |
