Poems, Art, And Music

Albert Durer

Four Horsemen of the apocalypse - woodwork, references to book of revelation, horses: conquest, war, death, famine

Sandra Boticelli

The Mystical Nativity - oil on canvas, 6 devils dying on the ground

Believes that they are in the Great Tribulation and predicts Christ’s Millennium in the year 1500

Michelangelo

The Last Judgement - fresco, depicts the 2nd coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgement of god on humanity
On the sistine chapel

Pieter Brugel the Elder

The Triumph of Death - surrealism oil painting, army of skeletons

Thomas Cole

The Course of Empire: Destruction - oil on canvas, red vs green themes, beheaded statue

John Martin

The Great Day of his Wrath - oil on canvas, earthquake where the city is torn up and thrown into the abyss, lightning, mountains transforming into rock
Part of his triptych, the Last Judgement series

Otto Dix

World War I prints - prints, many different images like the skull with the worms and maggots inside

Victor Schreckengost

Apocalypse ‘42 - ceramic, has Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito and a man riding a fiery horse (war) above a globe

Harry Louis Freund

Fore Horsemen of the Apocalypse - lithograph, 4 horsemen galloping through the sky to battle with scenes of warfare below

Saby Menyhei

The Last of Us: Season 1 concept art - shows abandoned places taken over by nature

Kevin Sherwood and James McCawley

Where are we going - sung by Malukah in Black Ops II: Zombies soundtrack, an easter egg when unlocking a number pad near a spiral staircase in afterlife mode with the number 935.
Also appears in COD: Black Ops III, and Black Ops IV

Olivier Messiaen

Quartet for the End of Time: Abyss of the Birds - has long, slow notes as a feeling of being alone, and then moving to a faster and more energetic section representing the freedom of the birds
Oliver was a war prisoner in Germany during the time, writing this showing the birds escaping like he wanted to

Black Sabbath

Electric Funeral - Covers themes of the Cold War and nuclear warfare with the slow and crushing notes sounding like a machine suffocating, Death of the world by technology
Album: Paranoid

REM

It’s the End of the World as we know it - overstimulation of content, with name references, Irony of numb acceptance

Album: Document

Leonardo Da Vinci

Mona Lisa (Louvre and Isleworth) used sfumato

Louvre: more atmospheric, more detail, natural background

Isleworth: columns, younger woman, less atmospheric, higher contrast

Vincent Van Gogh

Bedroom In Arles

1888: Least detail, bold outlines, flatter perspective, bright colors, tilted furniture and shapes

1889: More detail and refinement, painted from memory in the asylum after water damage, softer colors

1889: Gift for his mother and sister, brighter and lighter, wanting to share his joy, more delicate brushwork

Edvard Munch

Despair - Man on a bridge with a hat

Scream - Distorted face with people walking away in the background

Both use Fauvism and show his emotional turmoil

Henri Matisse

Dance I and Dance II - aimed to show joy through movement

Dance I - more realistic, bodies are more flat and have less dimention

Dance II - red people, bodies have more dimention

The Beatles

Strawberry Fields Forever

Demo: Him singing with piano and gutar

Final: More layers and depth, richer, like you’re in a dream

Lin-Manuel Miranda

This One’s Mine aka. Helpless

Draft: an exploration of ideas and themes

Final: more complete song with more direction and layers

Sophie Anne Caruso

Dead Mom

Demo: Her singing with piano chords and background music

Final: More layers and depth, and a more powerful build-up in the bridge

EJAE

Golden

Demos: experimentation with tempos, harmonies, and lyrics

Final: more direction, strong chorus, instrument background

Aladdin

Count on me - friendship duet between aladdin and abu, too slow-paced

Pocahontas

First to Dance - breaking hatred and initiating peace, didn’t convey the mature themes of the movie

Book of Mormon

Family Home Evening - too repetitive

Dear Evan Hansen

In the Bedroom Down the Hall - sad song from Connor’s mother, took the focus away from evan

J.M.W. Turner

Rain, Steam, and Speed - oil on canvas, an engine in coming forwards as it crosses the Maidenhead Railway Bridge in the rain

William Powell Firth

The Railway Station - oil on canvas, on the platform a large group of people trying to board the train

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Picture of the railroad at Takanawa - color woodcut triptych, the train is shown leaving Shinagawa Bay

Claude Monet

Gare Saint-Lazare - impressionist oil on canvas, two locomotives bathed in steam with passengers waiting to board in the platform with an angular glass roof

Yilan Folk Song

Drip Drip Drip - that song thats like “the train goes chugga chugga, ect.”

Steve McCurry

Train Station, Agra - photographs of the Taj Mahal in the golden hour

Richard Artschwager

Six in four - elevators with the door, window, table, basket, mirror, and rug

Paul Gaugin

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? - Oil on canvas, the evolution of humans with a old woman on the left, a middle aged man grabbing a fruit in the center, and an infant on the right

Rene Margritte

The Treachery of Images - pipe saying “c’est n’est pas une pipe” underneath

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory - melting clock painting

Andrew Wyath

Christina’s World - a young woman in a pink dress lying on the ground staring at a farmhouse

M.C. Escher

Ascending and Descending - the three stroy building with the sharp corners, and the people walking on the roof in two directions

Gregory Crewdson

Beneath the Roses - 20 photos of american psyche

Camille Seamn

The Distant is Imminent - photos of antarctica and the arctic

Sameul Beckett

Waiting for Godot, Scene 2

Pablo Neruda

Keeping still - the one about staying stil for 12 seconds

Philippe Orreindy

I’ll wait for the next one - the train with the skit actor and the girl who leaves

Marcel Ayme

The Man who could walk through walls - statue and story

Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow - count who is forced to move and leave items behind and realizes we are more prone to attachment to items than to people

Brian Eno

Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Music for Nine Postcards - minimalistic music

Max Richter

Sleep - science-based song for sleeping

Gwendolyn Brooks

We Real Cool

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

The medicine bag - the dude and his sioux grandpa who was gonna die so he taught him to embrace his roots and gave him that medicine bag

Carol Anne Duffy

In Mrs. Tilscher’s Class

Joss Whedon

Where do we go from here? - buffy the vampire musical song

Karen Russel

Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Ruth B

Lost Boy

Major Jackson

Let Me Begin Again - talks about starting life again with greater knowledge, a lot of natural imagery

Rumi

A stone I died - the stone died and was reincarnated as a plant so she should not fear death

John Donne

Death Be not proud - says death is not as all-powerful as it seems

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ulysses - wants to continue drinking the elixir of life, and not to stay still for a moment, for to be still is to be dead. Wants to gain knowledge and leave with his comrades, who have strong wills.

Emily Dickenson

Because I could not stop for Death

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali 95 - reflects on life, birth, death and humanity’s connection to the unknown, death is an extension to life, another phase of humanity

Dmitri Shostakovitch

15th Symphony: Fourth Movement - silence: loneliness and uncertainty, Sudden noise: unease and anxiety, music drifts into the unknown, making death feel like a layover and a transition rather than an end

Thich Nhat Hanh

Please Call me by my True Name - buddhist ideals

Davis Berman

A letter from Issac Asimoc to his Wife Janet, written on his Deathbed

Linkin Park

In the End - song encouraging people not to commit suicide, ironic bc chester committed suicide

Emma Lazarus

The New Colossus - statue of liberty

Adrienne Rich

Prospective Immigrants Please Note - doorway

Marilyn Chin

We are Americans Now, We live in the tundra - pain of leaving home behind but sometimes you have to

Adrian Castro

The sound of one hand clapping - voice being cut off by the authoritarian power. He is a singer and a dancer and carries his traditions throughout, dancing with the machinery in the difficulty of industry and labor and using his voice when the climate tries to stop it. He cannot be quiet as language is a part of his identity.

Richard Blanco

Mother Country - How it must feel to love a country like you have lost another

Frida Kahlo

The Bus

Jacob Lawrence

Migration - multiple images of the Great Migration of the African Americans

Led Zepplin

Immigrant Song - battle song, warships descending, viking conquest during viking popularity

Fiddler on the Roof

Far from the Home I love - woman leaves her home town in Russia for the person she loves, shows her pain

Genesis

Illegal Alien

Brendan Graham

Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears

Kovi Konowiecki

Borderlands - photography connecting human emotions with physical boundaries and finding out how to cross these boundaries

Los Tigres del Norte

Somos Mas Americanos - pride in where they are and that they are actually before americans and the first americans because that land was bought from Mexico

Du Fu

Travelling Again - seeing a place again and resting there

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 50 - moving away from love towards pain

John Massefield

Sea Fever

Robert Frost

Road Not Taken

William Butler Yeats

Sailing to Byzantium

Rustu Onur

The Journey - doesnt have anything and is in pinapple-smelling stuff

Cxeslaw Milosz

This Only -- seeing the place again, and wanting to see it without the labels that we put on everything, so pausing and just seeing it how it is

Richard Russo

Just Drive

Rita Dove

Vacation - people in the ariport’s stories

Nat Cole

Get Your Kicks on Route 66

Edward Hopper

Western Motel - image with lady on couch in hotel

Edward Ruscha

Standart Station - big red station, words standard on it

Willie Nelson

On the Road Again Song

David Hockney

Pearblossom Highway - perspective of a person on a road trip in the desert with a ton of signs

Tom Cohrane

Life is a Highway

Bic Runga

Drive

Norah Jones

Come Away with Me