Wicked: For Good, the second Wicked movie has burst onto cinema screens around the world. Having loved the first film and enjoyed the second, I find that both are better than the stage musical.

I think that's because they create a cinematic world in a more technicolour and vivid way than the stage show can. So, inspired by that world, here are some art picks with the same aesthetic vibes.

This phrase, said by Glinda, is echoed throughout the film and musical. Pink Glinda and Green Elphaba are reflected throughout the film’s scenography in many ways.

The absolute first 'pink and green' artwork that comes to mind for me is the stunning Rococo masterpiece that is The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

Painted in the late 1760s, it features a young woman decadently enjoying a swing while a young man admires her - and an older man pushes her on the swing. It's often easy to not spot him! It's now on display at the Wallace Collection in London, and I love to drop in when passing just to marvel at its over-the-top-ness.

Continuing the pink and green theme, this painting Under the Pink Tree by French artist Georges Picard. It is similar to some of the romantic scenes in the films between Fiyero and Glinda. Many of Picard’s artworks were murals or illustrations, and thus, not many are found in public museum collections.

And finally, from the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, here is Madame de Pompadour, resplendent in pink and green. This painting is by 18th-century French artist François Boucher, who also painted in the Rococo style. The painting depicts Madame de Pompadour, a mistress of Louis XV of France. She is surrounded by books, sheet music, drawings, reflecting her cultural activities. On the side table, you can see a state seal, a symbol of her political power.

When Glinda and Elphaba visit the Emerald City, they sing about seeing ‘Libraries, palaces! Museums! A hundred strong. There are wonders like I’ve never seen.’ And here are some artworks that channel the land of Oz.

To create the look and feel of Munchkinland, the production team for Wicked planted 9 million tulips. That imagery reminds me a lot of this painting Laag water (Ebb Tide) by Dutch artist Jan Toorop. It's part of the Dutch Luminist art movement, which aimed to capture light through saturated, vivid colours. This one particularly shines like a bright summer day.

It's on display at the Stedelijk Museum in Alkmaar, just 30 minutes north of Amsterdam, in an exhibition about the Bergen School, a group of artists who found a colony in a nearby seaside town.

Staying with a Dutch artist, this painting by Vincent van Gogh also captures some of the sprawling feel of the Land of Oz that the film has.

This painting was one of the last that Van Gogh finished. It was painted shortly before he died, during a very productive period. It depicts the landscape near Auvers-sur-Oise, where now both he and his brother Theo are buried.

Thank you for reading + until next time,