Cet Amour (2025) 绘画 由 Evelyn La Starza

This vibrant mixed-media painting is an expressive and poetic visual interpretation of Jacques Prévert’s poem “Cet amour.” Layering abstract forms, vivid colors, and handwritten fragments of the French poem, the artwork explores the raw emotional landscape of love in all its contradictions—fragile yet violent, tender yet desperate.

At the center of the composition is a striking, surreal plant in a bold, black-and-yellow striped pot. Its thick, vein-like branches twist outward, covered in small leaf-like shapes, suggesting organic growth, entanglement, and emotional complexity. Surrounding the plant are abstract shapes and patterns, with spontaneous brushstrokes and drips that evoke movement and emotional intensity.

Scattered throughout the canvas are handwritten lines from Prévert’s “Cet amour,” integrated into the texture of the painting like whispered thoughts or diary entries. These poetic fragments—“cet amour si violent, si fragile, si tendre, si désespéré...”—add layers of meaning, grounding the abstract imagery in the tangible depth of human experience.

A rich palette of greens, yellows, pinks, oranges, and blues floods the canvas, creating a luminous yet turbulent background. Amid the abstraction, simple floral motifs—a daisy here, a star-like bloom there—hint at innocence and renewal.

The overall effect is one of emotional immediacy. The piece feels like both a love letter and a confession, a meditation on how love lingers, transforms, and imprints itself on memory and form.


The painting captures the paradoxes of love that Prévert writes about—its beauty and sorrow, its persistence through time.

The textured surface and handwritten text mirror the vulnerability of romantic longing.

The plant becomes a metaphor for the way love spreads, roots itself, and becomes inseparable from one’s being.

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