Your type is…
The Teller of Nostalgia (PEST)
Antonín Dvořák
Jean-François Millet
- Impulse
- Outward
- Delicate
- Tradition
A prayer of nostalgia and the warmth of the earth
Your sense of beauty
Hearing a plain, warm melody or seeing countryside at dusk, memories long past rise up from somewhere deep. What draws you is work that holds the warmth of the earth, the daily work of people close to you, and a feeling for a distant home. Refined traditional sonata form and dignified pictorial composition are used, and yet the work is filled with an unadorned prayer and an easy warmth. Facing a scene drawn with a gentle gaze open to the world and the landscape, you feel a calm peace. You sense that honest beauty lives in expression that treasures proud roots and deep attachment.
What moves you
Coming upon a painting of people offering thanks to the earth in a field turning gold at dusk. Or hearing a woodwind tone with something nostalgic in it ring out in the hall and picturing the landscape of home.
The beauty you tend to overlook
Futuristic, avant-garde, experimental expression, far from the warmth of what is near. Set easy familiarity aside for a moment and meet unknown stimulus and bold new rules; a door onto new sensation opens.
The composer in tune with you: Antonín Dvořák
Born into a butcher's family, he presented his Symphony No. 9, From the New World, in America in 1893. While inheriting the form of the classical German symphony, he encountered African American spirituals and took their spirit into melodies of his own. Sound that puts a plain nostalgia into the vessel of tradition resonates deeply with a sense of beauty that values what is close at hand.
Learn more about Antonín DvořákThe painter who resonates with you: Jean-François Millet
Born to a farming family, he went on painting peasants at Barbizon even as the Paris art world called him "the man of the woods." In works such as The Gleaners he uses a frieze-like arrangement recalling classical sculpture to draw the bearing of peasants working in evening light. A manner of painting that pours the warmth of the earth and a sense of prayer into a dignified surface resonates with your love of an honest beauty.
Learn more about Jean-François MilletWhat links the two
There is no historical connection between the two. But they share a quality: taking pride in their own humble roots, and pouring the warmth of the earth and a plain prayer into dignified traditional form.
An unadorned prayer and the warmth of dusk will gather your steps in.
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.
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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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The more you know,
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