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Emotional Insight from “Catcher in the Rye” Part II

Here’s another big, easy-to-get with example of emotional insight from J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye.” Holden Caulfield is trying to find his little sister Phoebe at her school: I went down by a...

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Emotional Insight in Dialog from Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”

Here’s a solid example of emotional insight from Jane Austen. After playing some Italian songs, Miss Bingley varied the charm by a lively Scotch air; and soon afterwards Mr. Darcy, drawing near...

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Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”

Today we’ll have a look at one of the most famous paintings of all time, Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.”  It depicts the moment when Jesus has just informed the disciples that one of them will betray...

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Emotional Insight in an Amazing Painting by Rousseau

This is one of Rousseau’s most famous paintings – “Tiger in a Tropical Storm.” Rousseau’s paintings pack a big emotional wallop. You feel the fear, the desperation of the tiger. The white light on the...

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Emotional Insight About Serenity in a Painting by the Great Henri Rousseau

Here we have two very famous paintings by the amazing Henri Rousseau: “The Snake Charmer,” and “Tiger in a Tropical Storm.” (Note: we also looked at “Tiger in a Tropical Storm” in a previous post.)...

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“Acquainted with the Night”– Big Emotional Insight from Robert Frost

This one goes out to my Twitter friend @TeresaFederici, who also likes Frost. As regular readers of this site are aware, one thing I do here is to search out big, easy-to-get-with examples of emotional...

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Cezanne’s Breathtaking Painting, “Lake Annecy”

This one goes out to my Twitter friend @KnitSix, who also likes Cezanne. This Cezanne painting is breathtaking, even as an image on a web page. You feel exactly the beauty of seeing that same scene for...

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“Clair de Lune”: Mind-Blowing Music from Debussy

Over 21,000,000 views on YouTube attest to the amazing power of Debussy’s “Claire de Lune”. As we often note on this site, appreciation of a work of art is a use of emotional ability, and cannot be...

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Emotional Insight About the Quest for Beauty in Life, from Painter Jan Van Eyck

For me, the way into the appreciation of this painting is through the faces. Chancellor Rolin is on the left. He’s the wealthy and influential minister who hired Jan Van Eyck to paint this. He’s gazing...

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Amazingly Vivid Characters in “Jane Eyre”

An illustration from the Book Jane Eyre is Reading in Chapter 1, “Bewick’s History of British Birds”  Here are the very first paragraphs of “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte. There was no possibility of...

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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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Hamlet is a Huge Personality

I was reading Hamlet recently. You know the story – he comes home from studying at university on the occasion of his father’s funeral, only to find that his mother has already gotten remarried to...

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From GATSBY—Fastest Example Yet of What a Work of Art Does

I was having lunch a couple weeks ago with two business colleagues.  I was trying to express to them what it is that a work of art communicates. I tried this Robert Frost poem, but it didn’t...

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Vivid Emotional Insight from Willa Cather

Here is another great example of how a work of art communicates something that can’t be communicated intellectually. There’s no communication of information only, that can convey what this so vividly...

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The Best Description I’ve Ever Seen of What a Work of Art Is

This site provides many quick, easy-to-get-with examples of what a work of art is. I have just discovered the best written description I’ve ever seen that communicates this — without the use of...

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