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Period: 469 BCE to
Humanities (Happiness )
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Jan 1, 1494
The last supper by Leonardo da Vinci
One of the most famous paintings of all time celebrating happiness in the Christian religion where Jesus has supper with his 12 deciples. Which in my opinion is an extremely important and happy day on earth. -
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Poem)
Love and happiness story that Shakespeare produced. The story is incredibly popular and is arguably his happiest story. The love story take us through tons of sticky situations but is ultimately great at the end. It was a no brained when thinking of a poem to chose. -
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
She stoops to conquer is a classical comedic play that take us on the journey of a young man who is tricked into marrying a women. The play is unique and one of the first for it’s time and it brought happiness to the audience by creating old English comedy through a play. -
the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
U.S. declarations of independence states one of the happiest points for the US as a whole it marks their freedom and the time the became a nation. It fit’s extremely well into the theme because of this -
Casa Vicens, Barcelona
Gaudí is an artist that just portrays happiness in my opinion. Scouring through his work to find this wonderful piece of architecture I saw the style resembling happiness and the loud vibrant colors just needed to make it into this timeline. -
Making a living Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin is without a doubt the cornerstone of film and comedy for that matter. What better topic to chose in film that comedy it resonates the most with happiness and it’s what it makes people feel. -
The Roaring Twenty’s
The Roaring Twenties marks a great point in US history when consumerism and all the fun started. After the war everyone was extremely happy and looking for fun and happiness. Nevertheless it’s safe to say that if there is a period in time that should be used for happiness it is this one. -
Benny Goodman (King of Swing) Music
Benny Goodman named the king of swing carried the era on his back with music. During a dark and sad time like the Great Depression the musician created happy and uplifting music like swing so it is safe to say he belongs in this time line. -
Dox Thrash
1 of his few happier looking paintings considering the period. Most of his paintings are dark and sad like the period but this painting gives great color and expresses lots of happiness. -
V-J Day in Times Square - Alfred Eisenstaedt,
This famous picture taken in the middle of Time square at the end of World War 2 is truly happiness. It marks the end of the war and the start to a free life. When a sailor kisses a nurse and it is truly a great moment captured on camera. -
I have a dream (MLK)
MLK’s happiest speech could go down as his most famous one. The I have a dream speech is one of the biggest things in modern day philosophy amped perfectly aligns with my theme. -
The Sound of music
The sound of music is rated as one of the happiest movies of all time providing amazing music vans visuals for its time. The movie is undoubtedly perfect for my theme of happiness and fit’s extremely well into the classical music era as well. -
The first moon landing
The moon race was something the US was trying to win. To bring the first human to walk on the moon is extraordinary and is a key time in history with massive celebrations -
ABC (Jackson 5)
The song ABC is the most happy like song in my opinion. The song truly uplifts and just put people in a good mood. We can see this by it still being heavily played close to 60 years later. -
Mountain retreat (Bob Ross)
Bob Ross is without a doubt the best candidate for my theme. This painting resembles peace and happiness to me. Bob Ross’s paintings always resembled happiness for people first his paint show going viral then his amazing art being sold for huge sums. It is safe to say he was extremely happy and his paintings resembled it.