It's an obvious but striking fact that the most popular works of art in the world show pretty things: happy people, flowers in spring, blue skies.

Hearts could be found all over the medieval world: from works of art, to coats of arms, to common playing cards.

Some works of art going on down there, I must say.

We're in Stoke Newington in East London, and we're going to see how they make these amazing works of art. Let's go.

compelling, rich works of art that have existed.

The first festival occurred in 2019 and featured 50 works of art and 100 cultural events in haka villages in Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli, and Taichung

We humans have an immense appetite for complicated things, neuroscience, astrophysics and molecular biology of course, but also barely decipherable books, abstract works of art and avant-garde pieces of theatre without plot or character, all of which perhaps evoke the primordial puzzles of the universe and our own always ineffable existence within it. But our veneration for complexity can reach a most painful, time-consuming and futile zenith in one area in particular – relationships. It's here that we find otherwise discerning and hard-headed people exhibiting extreme patience, often lasting over a succession of tormented years, for what we can call complicated situations. The complexities may arise from some of the following dynamics. A beloved partner who wants to commit and surely will one day but not quite yet on account of this or that factor or not entirely because of certain psychological fears or not conclusively or at least not without certain important caveats. They may need space, freedom or what they call a chance to explore though quite what was still not wholly clear, though we have asked them on many occasions. Then a partner with whom there are a lot of misunderstandings, around whom words often lose their standard meanings, around whom we may have to spend hours untangling what was truly meant and around whom gestures or deeds that we previously thought uncontentious suddenly become the occasion for major surprising aggravations. Or a partner who in principle is there for us and in theory loves us very very much but in actuality – like last week and the week before that – is constantly remarkably busy, unable to respond to our texts, out with their compelling friends or concentrated on their always extremely demanding job. Or a partner with whom we sit up late at night on many occasions with a pad and paper to hand attempting to determine where the issues are coming from, what is at play and how things might be handled before, baffled and upset, we finally have to retreat to bed a little after 1am feeling fragile and tearful.

Decades have passed since Twin Peaks was first released, but it remains one of the most haunting works of art to this day.

Of course, symbolically, the creative solution allows us to create great works of art, to create work that will outlive us and that will outlast us, to leave a sort of symbolic immortality and a legacy of that sort.

Nowadays, many birthday cakes are works of art, extravagant, edible creations designed and decorated to represent the person celebrating their birthday.