It all started with one simple prompt: “Painting of a ballerina dancing”, but art history helped me kick it up a notch.

From the solemn geometry of Romanesque frescoes to the dreamy swirl of Impressionism and the sleek polish of Art Deco, each image shows how every period saw beauty, movement, and emotion.

Try it yourself! Simply add the art styles below to the start of your prompts, like this:

“Post-impressionist painting of a ballerina dancing” or “Art deco painting of a ballerina dancing”.

Every label changes the lighting, texture, and mood, like stepping through time with one simple prompt.

Being a prompt engineer doesn’t mean you spend your days in a lab wearing a white coat and whispering sweet nothings to a chatbot (although, let’s be honest, sometimes it does). It means you use smart tools that make you faster, sharper, and better at coaxing useful, clever, and downright magical outputs from AI models.