In a post on Mental Floss, Jon Meyer shares the true-life inspirations behind some well-known works of art. He examines the stories behind:
1. Claude Monet’s Water Lilies Series
2. Édouard Manet’s Bonus Asparagus
3. Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals
4. Gustav Klimt’s Woman in Gold
5. The Benin Bronzes
6. Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
7. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Gerald’s Tree
8. John Everett Millais’s Ophelia
9. Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky
10. Hilma af Klint’s Paintings for the Temple
11. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park With George
Use these stories and artworks to inspire your own writing.
