OSCAR WILDE… DUBLIN
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Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.
I love his quips, a few here:
*Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
*It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
*Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
*What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
*True friends stab you in the front.
*There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
*Genius is born—not paid.
*The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890).
Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was being performed in London.
English sculptor Danny Osborne was commissioned by the Guinness Ireland Group to create a statue commemorating Oscar Wilde, which was unveiled in 1997, by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland.
Since marble alone was deemed inadequate, the statue was formed from different coloured stones from three continents.
The torso is of green nephrite jade from British Columbia, Canada, and pink thulite from Norway.
The legs are of Norwegian Blue Pearl granite with the shoes being black Indian charnockite and finished with bronze shoelace tips.[5] The statue also wears a Trinity College tie made from glazed porcelain, and three rings – Wilde's wedding ring and two scarabs, one for good luck, the other for bad luck.
The statue is mounted with Wilde reclining on a large quartz boulder obtained by Osborne himself from the Wicklow Mountains.
When the statue was unveiled in 1997, it was the first statue commemorating Wilde since his death 97 years earlier.
It received near unanimous praise for the materials used and for its location near his childhood home at 1, Merrion Square.
In 2010, the porcelain head of Wilde had to be replaced because cracks were forming on it.
The porcelain head was replaced by a new one made of white jadeite.
Have a wonderful day, filled with love and thank you for your visit, M, (*_*)
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OSCAR WILDE… DUBLIN
#AbFav_DAY_TRIP
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.
I love his quips, a few here:
*Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
*It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
*Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
*What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
*True friends stab you in the front.
*There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
*Genius is born—not paid.
*The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890).
Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was being performed in London.
English sculptor Danny Osborne was commissioned by the Guinness Ireland Group to create a statue commemorating Oscar Wilde, which was unveiled in 1997, by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland.
Since marble alone was deemed inadequate, the statue was formed from different coloured stones from three continents.
The torso is of green nephrite jade from British Columbia, Canada, and pink thulite from Norway.
The legs are of Norwegian Blue Pearl granite with the shoes being black Indian charnockite and finished with bronze shoelace tips.[5] The statue also wears a Trinity College tie made from glazed porcelain, and three rings – Wilde's wedding ring and two scarabs, one for good luck, the other for bad luck.
The statue is mounted with Wilde reclining on a large quartz boulder obtained by Osborne himself from the Wicklow Mountains.
When the statue was unveiled in 1997, it was the first statue commemorating Wilde since his death 97 years earlier.
It received near unanimous praise for the materials used and for its location near his childhood home at 1, Merrion Square.
In 2010, the porcelain head of Wilde had to be replaced because cracks were forming on it.
The porcelain head was replaced by a new one made of white jadeite.
Have a wonderful day, filled with love and thank you for your visit, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved