"Emotion" is something which can easily be overdone in an work
of art. Similar to the case with "significance", the audience
is so good generally at putting emotion into something themselves
that working hard at that is rather overkill, perhaps even counterproductive. It might be that some would debate this. After all, emotion is
dominating in human interaction. A great amount of culture, and
a great amount of communication take place on our fair planet,
which has little content except emotion. Which is a pity, for
emotion is really rather limited in use. Sure, it is great fun
to use, but it doesn't really lead much of anywhere, and it has
a tendency to put itself in the drivers' seat, which is inviting
disaster. So anyway, when you present a good work of art that has relevance
to the viewer, if he wants to be emotional about it, trust me
he will. There is no need to work overtime. If you want to create emotions just for the sake of emotions,
personally I think you are just shuffling things around in the
viewer's mind to no good effect. And if you are doing it to make
him do something, frankly that borders on simple manipulation. Anything you wanna do you should be able to do with good, open
communication and a good aesthetic product.
Emotion