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Another Stunner from GATSBY
A Sign Like the One Described in “Gatsby” I was talking about Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” in the comment section with reader Geaaronson the other day, so it seems like a good time for another blast...
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Easy-to-Get-With Emotional Insight… from Degas
The Ballet Dancer by Degas. Degas’ paintings of ballerinas are world-famous. Why is that? Let’s take a look at this one. Do you feel that? To me that feels like it may be something about the mystery...
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Emotional Insight from T.S. Eliot’s “Love Song”
As you may have noticed, what I’m trying to do here is provide very punchy, powerful, easy-to-get-with emotional insights. Lots of great poems, plays and novels have beautiful stretches in them that...
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Emotional Insight from Earnest Hemingway
Here’s a quote from Earnest Hemingway’s THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA: He looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now. But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead...
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What It Feels Like to Live in 1650 (Emotional Insight from Vermeer)
Looking at this painting fills me with emotions like those I might have if I were actually there witnessing the thing it depicts. I feel for that milkmaid. It looks to me like she recently handwashed...
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It’s Played at Every Wedding – But Did You Know Where it Comes From?
Did you know that the famous “Here Comes the Bride” Wedding March is from Wagner’s Lohengrin? Take a second to listen to it. Now, what’s making it so beautiful? We know it’s about a wedding. So the...
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“Fundamentals” Word Cloud
Word cloud via wordle.net. This seems like a good occasion to recap the fundamentals – except, you can’t recap them. You have to see them for yourself. The thing that a work of art achieves can’t be...
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Emotional Insight in Caravaggio’s “The Denial of St. Peter”
“The Denial of St. Peter”, by Caravaggio Regular readers of this site know that I try to find big, easy-to-get with examples of emotional insight. Emotional insight is what a work of art communicates:...
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Kick-Ass Emotional Insight from Dylan Thomas
I’ve posted previously about how a work of art communicates a meaning that only your emotional ability can appreciate. Today’s Dylan Thomas poem, “In My Craft or Sullen Art”, is a great example. In My...
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What a Work of Art Communicates: Example from “Moby Dick”
Here’s the paragraph that introduce Stubb, in Herman Melville’s MOBY DICK. Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A...
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