1) Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem "Kubla Khan"which gives the reader a feeling of power and mystery. The title of the poem immediately puts the reader into a frame of mind that encompasses the poem's theme. "Kubla Khan" takes the reader back in time to a foreign place. The second section of the title is a link to the dream he had one night that he took opium. This strange vision is described during the poem but brought up in the title.
2) "The artist speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity and beauty, and pain." --Joseph Conrad
When we analyze art it evokes emotion. All art seems to draw something out of us that can be different for everyone depending on time period, background, culture, etc.. Some art is made to evoke certain feelings such as abstract expressionism, but other art was purely created because someone had nothing else to do so they created a masterpiece. As is the case for the Venus of Willendorf. Art draws emotions from us and the artist is the one in control of these emotions.
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