Art, Romantics and Rock Music

This post is the product of the idea I got recently about mixing art with lyrics from rock music, mostly The Smiths to be honest. I absolutely enjoyed doing it because I love combining pop culture and classic works of art. Assembling these paintings and lyrics filled me with such rapture and I hope it shall do the same for you. This is a rather frivolous post, just like my other posts lately. Being engaged in other ‘projects’, I had very little time for myself and as a result I didn’t feel very inspired, but I hope to write some proper posts soon.

”The dream is gone but the baby is real oh you did a good thing she could have been a poet or, she could have been a fool…” (This Night Has Opened My Eyes, The Smiths)

”…this night has opened my eyes and I will never sleep again (…) and I’m not happy and I’m not sad…” (The Smiths)

”I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I’m miserable now.” (The Smiths)

”No it’s NOT like any other love this one’s different because it’s us!” (The Smiths, Hand in Glove)

”I dreamt about you last night and I fell out of bed twice you can pin and mount me like a butterfly…” (The Smiths, Reel Around the Fountain)

”Chimes sing Sunday morn Today’s the day she’s sworn To steal what she never could own And race from this hole she calls home.” (The Stone Roses, Made of Stone)

”Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey Hide on the promenade Etch a postcard, “How I dearly wish I was not here.” (Everyday is Like Sunday, Morrissey)

”Take me now baby here as I am Pull me close, try and understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed” (Because the night, Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen)

”I’m happy when it rains I’m happy when it pours…” (Happy When it Rains, Jesus and Mary Chain)

”Oh watcha gonna do, ‘Marianne’? You’re a sweet sweet girl. But it’s a cruel, cruel world a cruel, cruel world.” (What Katie Did, The Libertines)

Mary to Percy: ”We’ll live a life no one has ever known But I know you’re thinking that I’m hardly grown But oh thank God, at last and finally I can see you’re gonna stay with me” (Marianne Faithfull – Come & Stay With)

Shelley’s response: ”A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetery gates Keats and Yeats are on your side…” (Cemetry Gates, The Smiths)

Lord Byron flirting with Caroline Lamb: ”Gimme danger, little stranger And I’ll give you a piece Gimme danger, little stranger And I’ll feel your disease There’s nothing in my dreams Just some ugly memories Kiss me like the ocean breeze

Caroline’s response: ”You’re bad, mad, and dangerous to know.”

”I’m eighteen and I don’t know what I want Eighteen I just don’t know what I want Eighteen I gotta get away I gotta get out of this place I’ll go runnin’ in outer space oh yeah” (Alice Cooper)

”When she wakes up in the morning She writes down all her dreams” (What a Waster – The Libertines)

”There’s a club if you’d like to go you could meet somebody who really loves you so you go, and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home, and you cry and you want to die…” (The Smiths, How Soon is Now)

”Life is very long, when you’re lonely Life is very long, when you’re lonely Life is very long, when you’re lonely Life is very long, when you’re lonely” (The Queen is Dead, The Smiths)