Title Creator Date Era City Country Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Staircase Group (aka Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale) Painter: Peale, Charles Wilson 1795 Perceiving accurately is important and playing with the artistic medium is fun.
System of Architectural Ornament, A Designer: Sullivan, Louis Henri 1922 1900s United States The world is a place of infinite, ordered, geometric, fluid possibilities.
Tell No One (aka Ne le dis à personne) Director: Canet, Guillaume 2006 1991-2010 Life is sad, and controlled by mysterious corruption.
The New Colossus Author: Lazarus, Emma 1883 1800s Benevolent celebration of liberty as a beacon to a troubled world.

A marvelous land of liberty offers welcome to the oppressed of the world.
The Samovar Painter: Carlsen, Emil 1920c. 1900s New Britain, CT United States 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>
The Taste of Things Director: Tran, Anh Hung 2024 2011-2030

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tentative: the ideal world of physical creation of food shared by soulmates.
Three Graces Sculptor: Canova, Antonio 1814 1800s The female human form is beautiful, graceful, ideal.

Quiet repose and sisterly love. The piece exudes a quiet elegance and peacefulness amidst the complex three-dimensional composition. The inclusion of "sisterly love" is less certain, except that taking into account the mythological background of the piece. It can be argued that one should not take that into account, so perhaps that should not formally be included in the theme.
Trees Alexander, John 1899 1900s United States A sense of the world as dynamic and strong.

Nature is wild and dynamic.
Trustee from the Toolroom Author: Shute, Nevil 1960 A feeling of gentleness, kindness and generosity towards good people in the world.

The importance of pursuing one's personal values.<br>
Two Family House Director: De Felitta, Raymond 2000 1991-2010 United States Feelings of benevolence and optimism about life. Happiness comes from making choices for your own good.

Going after what you want in life; Don't be stopped by conventional standards of the people around you. It takes courage to be selfish.
Tzena Tzena Tzena Miron - Parish 1941 1900s Joyous celebration

Joyous celebration
Vitus Director: Murer, Fredi 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.
Wall Street Director: Stone, Oliver 1987 1971-1990 United States

There are bad people in power who use ordinary people as pawns in their endless pursuit of money.  Those who are not ruthless are sheep to be slaughtered by the rich and powerful.  Greed is bad.
Wall-E Director: Stanton, Andrew 2008 1991-2010 The world is garbage, and more garbage and humans have destroyed the earth, because of their wanton consumerism.

Mankind is a blight on the universe, and only cute robots (as opposed to evil robots) can save the earth from human degradation.
Winged Victory Sculptor: unknown 190 BCE c. 500 BCE - 1 CE Paris France

One of the great expressions of the Greek Classical and Hellenistic spirit -- that men (and women) are larger than life and triumphant.  While the image is partially a fantasy since the woman is winged and probably represents a goddess: Nike -- this concretization depicts a "god" in the form of a human woman, thus glorifying women.

The grandeur of being alive and free.
Wisdom and Strength Painter: Veronese, Paolo 1580c 1500s Sumptuousness is good, and the human form is good.