While there are over 112 official languages in the world, everyone understands a laugh, a smile, a frown, a tear. Humans have been the most common subjects throughout art history to display emotion, and continues to be today.

Here I give you 10 pieces involving emotion. Artists had to show pieces involving a human in them and could not have more than 10,000 pageviews. Artist works are displayed by order of entry.

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Eyes open wide, hand clasped over mouth, this portrait contains the fundamentals of the emotion mixing it with a grungy, dark atmosphere. The perfect combination for fear.

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This traditional art piece uses colors and lines with an acute exaggeration of proportions to display what I think would be fearful to us: insanity.

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The use of the sensual woman body made out of flames creates the perfect combination for passion. Perhaps sexual passion, or a desire for something else, either way Salamander gets the point across quite well.

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Here we see someone, over the progression of 60 days, day a portrait of himself. While this might have been very academic in purpose, many of the faces displayed show a great deal of emotion. We see him go from traditional portraits, to being board, to abstracting himself, to smirking, to being a clown - finding any way to make this more interesting. And it works.

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This traditional mix digital piece shows a storm coming, brewing from the woman. With a smile on her face, the emotion of the impending fight can be felt.

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Using blue hues, this digital airbrush piece shows the face of a woman, as the title suggests, worried. The texture of the airbrushing creates a dream-like world that would, at first, seem comforting, but slowly melts into disturbing, icy and cold.

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This photo leaves one wondering just where this was taken. Was this really taken in purgatory? That's my favorite part of this photo. The composition sinks the figure low into this gray, lifeless area that seems like it's not even a part of this world.

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This photomanipulation fits perfectly with the artist's quote: I dream, therefore I become. The night time background is perfect for the idea of dreams, but I feel more like the silhouette is writing about his (or her) dreams of the future.

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Despite being unable to read the description, and despite the decorations seeming almost 50's Christmas-like, the strange, waving towers upwards, the smoke and the use of black and white make this photograph incredibly eerie.

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Again raising the question of whether this was taken in the real world or some place within our dreams, this photograph uses light and subject to give a dream-like, happy effect.

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