Every Picture Inspires A Story is a collection of twenty-one short stories, all of which have been inspired by (but are not based on) a particular painting. From David Hockney’s Pool And Steps to Van Gogh’s Two Peasant Women Digging Potatoes, the stories are as diverse as the artists’ brush strokes. Most of the tales have been set within the time frame of when the individual painting was created.
Whilst the featured paintings are fundamental as they have triggered the author’s imagination, they are by no means necessary for the reader’s understanding or enjoyment of these varied and colourful tales depicting contemporaneous adventures ranging from the 16th to the 21st century.
This is H A Howe’s third collection of short stories and lacks none of her unique style that always manages to captivate, and often surprises the reader with unexpected twists
Table of Content
Pool and Steps – David Hockney, 1971
The Peasant Wedding – Pieter Breugel the Elder, 1567
The Pleading Lawyer (Un Avocat Plaidant) – Honoré Daumier, 1845
The Kite (La Cometa) – Francisco Goya, 1777-1778
Degenerate Art (Entartete Kunst) – Munich 1937
Two Girls with Oleander (Zwei Mädchen mit Oleander)
– Gustav Klimt, 1890-92
Young Girl With A Lamp (Jeune Fille A La Lampe) – Shart, 1968
The Gypsy Girl – Frans Hals, 1628
Two Peasant Women Digging Potatoes – Vincent Van Gogh, 1885
The Photograph – anonymous, c. 1915
Boating – Édouard Manet, 1874
Still Life with Checked Tablecloth – Juan Gris, 1915
Interior – Edgar Degas, 1868-69
plus Caravaggio, Giulio Rosati, Thomas Gainsborough, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Hendrick Pot
About the author
H A Howe is a writer and lyricist. ‘Every Picture Inspires A Story is her third collection of short stories. She has also written various plays, and one of her earlier ones, an historical play, was translated into French and German and the performance rights have been licensed for production in three countries, and is being developed as a feature film.
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