Your type is…
The Passionate Revolutionary (PEMT)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Francisco de Goya
- Impulse
- Outward
- Powerful
- Tradition
Breaking through the wall of fate to mark out your own truth
Your sense of beauty
The instant you hear a resonance like thunder, or see a surface where light and shadow stand sharply opposed, you feel an exhilaration that clears the chest. What you trust is an overwhelming strength that faces unreasoning absurdity and the oppression of an age without compromise. The classical forms built by Haydn and Mozart and the tradition of court painting are inherited, and yet an enormous passion bursts out, enough to break that frame from within. Standing before expression that collides with the world and its age and marks its own will forcefully into it, your soul comes awake. In someone who holds to their own truth without fear of limits, you sense the highest worth of all.
What moves you
The time when the full ensemble thunders at overwhelming pressure and a fierce theme rings out as if standing up to fate. Or facing a painting where a dazzling contrast of light and shadow rises out of the dark and confronts you with the absurdity of a society.
The beauty you tend to overlook
The calm, quiet harmony of an everyday that holds no fierce struggle or assertion. Loosen the strong tension sometimes, and let yourself rest in a calm empty space or a soft waver of sound where nothing is being fought.
The composer in tune with you: Ludwig van Beethoven
Facing the failure of his hearing, he wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament in 1802 and then came back from it. Inheriting the classical sonata form of Haydn and others, he expressed his struggle with fate through overwhelming contrasts of dynamics and fierce fortissimos. Sound that pushes the limits of form and strikes out an unbreakable will resonates strongly with a sense of beauty that stands up to the absurd.
Learn more about Ludwig van BeethovenThe painter who resonates with you: Francisco de Goya
While painting refined portraits as a court painter, he witnessed the reality of war and left the print series The Disasters of War. In The Third of May 1808, a man in white is lit as if by a spotlight in the darkness, and an unreasoning oppression is drawn. A surface that collided with the absurdity of its age through traditional technique resonates with a sensibility that challenges limits.
Learn more about Francisco de GoyaWhat links the two
There is no historical connection between the two. But they share a quality: pushing the traditional forms they inherited to the very limit, and marking into them a fierce passion and will against deafness and the absurdity of an age.
Break through the wall of an absurd fate, and repaint the world by your own will.
Who stands beside you changes the work
Walk through the same exhibition, hear the same performance, and what you take home still changes with the person standing beside you.
A type who is fun to go and see things with
Without a word between you, your hearts move in the same place.
A type who finds what you overlooked
Half of it overlaps, half of it shifts. They show you what you would have walked past.
A type who sees from a completely different point of view
You spend the same hours, and the painting or the piece each of you remembers is a different one.
Types close to yours
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The Meticulous ArtisanOISTGabriel Fauré × Johannes Vermeer
The Perfectionist ArchitectOIMTJohann Sebastian Bach × Paul Klee
The Graceful HarmonistOESTFelix Mendelssohn × William Bouguereau
The Brilliant EntertainerOEMTWolfgang Amadeus Mozart × Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Philosopher of SilenceOISNErik Satie × Edward Hopper
The Mystic VisionaryOIMNAlexander Scriabin × Hilma af Klint
The Magician of ColorOESNMaurice Ravel × Henri Matisse
The Avant-Garde PioneerOEMNIgor Stravinsky × Pablo Picasso
The Solitary SeekerPISNJohannes Brahms × Caspar David Friedrich
The Mad GeniusPIMNHector Berlioz × Edvard Munch
The Free SpiritPESNFranz Liszt × Gustav Klimt
The Iron-Willed ChallengerPEMNRichard Strauss × J. M. W. Turner
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