Emotion in art

Explore Paintings Through Emotion

You do not need an art-history vocabulary to begin. Start with a feeling, then follow it into specific paintings, artists and visual choices.

paintings about loneliness

Loneliness

Explore how empty rooms, winter streets and distant shorelines give visual form to loneliness.

artwork sadness

Look beyond dark color to see how posture, distance and silence carry sadness in painting.

paintings about anxiety

Discover how unstable space, repetition and compressed figures can make anxiety visible.

paintings about depression

A careful collection of paintings shaped by isolation, heaviness, stillness and emotional distance.