Art Details Series: Lovers
|| Tom Lovell, Carl Herpfer, Franz Gullery, Silvio Allason, Walter Sadler, Heinrich von Angeli, James Jebusa Shannon, Karl Heinrich Hoff, Howard Pyle ||
we weren't supposed to love. (but what if we did anyway)
macbeth, shakespeare // the fall of man, hendrick goltzius // confess, colleen hoover // anna karenina, dir. joe wright // via, voices from the fuselage // x // the kiss, silvio allason // romeo and juliet, sergio cupido // postcolonial love poems, natalie diaz // a huguenot, john everett millais
~ 30 creative prompts based on literature, art, and music ~
Prompts from literature & poetry
📚 “You should be kissed often, and by someone who knows how.” - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
📚 “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
📚 “At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
📚 “He stepped down, trying not to look at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
📚 “You are my sympathy, my better self, my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
📚 “Tis better to have loved and lost, Than to never have loved at all.” - In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson
📚 “We loved with a love that was more than love.” - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
📚 "You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.” - milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
📚 “Come. And be my baby.” - Come, And Be My Baby by Maya Angelou
📚 “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” - Hermann Hesse
Prompts from art
🎨 Il Bacio - Franceso Hayez (1859)
🎨 The Jewish Bride - Rembrandt (1665-1669)
🎨 In Bed, The Kiss - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1892)
🎨 Romeo and Juliet I - Sir Frank Dicksee (1844)
🎨 Country Dance - Renoir (1883)
🎨 The Lovers - René Magritte (1928)
🎨 A Romance - Santiago Rusiñol (1894)
🎨 A Huguenot - John Everett Millais (1852)
🎨 Lovers Kissing at a Piano - Unknown artist (?)
🎨 Il Bacio - Silvio Allason (1892)
Prompts from music
🎼 Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars
🎼 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
🎼 All of Me - John Legend
🎼 Because You Loved Me - Céline Dion
🎼 Dreaming of You - Selena
🎼 Cry to Me - Solomon Burke
🎼 Can’t Help Falling in Love - Elvis
🎼 Can’t Take my Eyes off of You - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
🎼 Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
🎼 Be My Baby - The Ronettes