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The Oscar Wilde Memorial (1997)
By Danny Osborne
Commissioned by the Guinness Ireland Group
The lens that I used is very sharp so you can now read the quotes on the black pillars if you view the higher resolution versions of the photographs.
I assume that that restoration work is underway as the two small bronze figures are missing from the two pillars which appear to be in better condition than they were the last time I paid a visit to the park.
Oscar Wilde’s (1854-1900) rich and dramatic portrayals of the human condition have made him one of Ireland’s most popular and loved writer’s. His short stories, plays and poems continue to inspire and entertain people the world over. This memorial fittingly captures Wilde’s dramatic and audacious personality. Commissioned by the Guinness Ireland Group, and created by Irish sculptor Danny Osborne, the memo- rial took almost two and a half years from conception to completion. Geologists, quarry owners, glass workers and foundries from all over the world were consulted. Osborne used complementary colour stones and also sought out stones with varying textures to give a much more lifelike representation of Wilde than in a conventional statue.
These stones and materials include bronze, glass, granite, jade, porcelain, quartz and thulite. As one can see Wilde’s green jacket of nephrite jade from Canada, is complimented by red cuffs made of thulite from Norway. The sculpture is accompanied by two stone pillars which are covered in quotations of Wilde’s writing. These quotes set out these thoughts, opinions and witticisms on art and life. The quotes were selected by a mixture of poets, public figures and artists who use Wilde’s own words to pay tribute to him. The etchings of the chosen quotes copy the personal handwriting of figures including Seamus Heaney, John B. Keane and President Michael D. Higgins. Placed on top of the pillars are two small bronze sculptures, one of a pregnant woman who represents Wilde’s wife Constance and the theme of life, staring accusingly across the path at her husband, while the other is a male torso representing Dionysus and the theme of art. With Wilde, reclining on his rocky perch, facing towards his childhood home at No. 1 Merrion Square.
Danny Osborne has worked as a very successful full time artist since 1971. He has travelled extensively, participated in expeditions to the Arctic, Andes and the Himalayas, and has documented his experiences through painting and sculpture. Osborne’s sculptures tend to be created using a variety of stones and porcelain like The Oscar Wilde Memorial.
On Tuesday, September 3rd we gathered the cast of the upcoming performance on a beautiful property built in 1911 in full costume on a 100 degree day and make plates. With the assistance of Randy Estudillo we made 8x10 tintype portraits of 5 actors and two group images for use in the promotional materials for the play. It was a super busy day with temperatures near 100 degrees outside and likely 110+ in the tent where we processed the plates. I'd like to say that everything went perfectly, but unfortunately the temperatures negatively affected our chemicals and made the day quite the challenge. In the end, however, we were able to get what we needed.
Behind the scenes video here: youtu.be/WJnS5sHpGQ0
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The Oscar Wilde Memorial (1997)
By Danny Osborne
Commissioned by the Guinness Ireland Group
The lens that I used is very sharp so you can now read the quotes on the black pillars if you view the higher resolution versions of the photographs.
I assume that that restoration work is underway as the two small bronze figures are missing from the two pillars which appear to be in better condition than they were the last time I paid a visit to the park.
Oscar Wilde’s (1854-1900) rich and dramatic portrayals of the human condition have made him one of Ireland’s most popular and loved writer’s. His short stories, plays and poems continue to inspire and entertain people the world over. This memorial fittingly captures Wilde’s dramatic and audacious personality. Commissioned by the Guinness Ireland Group, and created by Irish sculptor Danny Osborne, the memo- rial took almost two and a half years from conception to completion. Geologists, quarry owners, glass workers and foundries from all over the world were consulted. Osborne used complementary colour stones and also sought out stones with varying textures to give a much more lifelike representation of Wilde than in a conventional statue.
These stones and materials include bronze, glass, granite, jade, porcelain, quartz and thulite. As one can see Wilde’s green jacket of nephrite jade from Canada, is complimented by red cuffs made of thulite from Norway. The sculpture is accompanied by two stone pillars which are covered in quotations of Wilde’s writing. These quotes set out these thoughts, opinions and witticisms on art and life. The quotes were selected by a mixture of poets, public figures and artists who use Wilde’s own words to pay tribute to him. The etchings of the chosen quotes copy the personal handwriting of figures including Seamus Heaney, John B. Keane and President Michael D. Higgins. Placed on top of the pillars are two small bronze sculptures, one of a pregnant woman who represents Wilde’s wife Constance and the theme of life, staring accusingly across the path at her husband, while the other is a male torso representing Dionysus and the theme of art. With Wilde, reclining on his rocky perch, facing towards his childhood home at No. 1 Merrion Square.
Danny Osborne has worked as a very successful full time artist since 1971. He has travelled extensively, participated in expeditions to the Arctic, Andes and the Himalayas, and has documented his experiences through painting and sculpture. Osborne’s sculptures tend to be created using a variety of stones and porcelain like The Oscar Wilde Memorial.
OSCAR WILDE (October 16, 1854 -November 30, 1900)
101 views of OSCAR WILDE's TOMB at PERE LACHAISE Cemetery in Paris.
the story of the statue is a wild one....for it has folklore on its own...the 'winged angel' represents Oscar Wilde with it's enormous erect 'man part'. At the turn of the 1900's this scandalized paris.
only recently, the late 1980's onward, copious women have kissed his grave leaving their lipstick marks. it seems more likely that OSCAR would appreciate guys pressing their lips to his grave. so when ADDA DADA first visited his grave back in the 1980's, he placed a nice smack on OSCAR's grave...sans lipstick, though, for ADDA never could find the right color...
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OSCAR WILDE passed away on November 30, 1900, in L'HOTEL on RUE BEAUX ARTS in ROOM 16.
The room still has the original furnishings including OSCARS death bed. One night is now only 600 euros ($900)! Don't think it is a little hovel of a room. It has a balcony; receiving room, and THE bedroom, which, yes, still has the original wallpaper!
"EITHER THAT WALLPAPER GOES OR I DO" was OSCARS last words on November 30, 1900.
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OSCAR WILDE
Born October 16, 1854 DUBLIN
Died November 30, 1900 PARIS
Oscar's body had to wait 9 years in Bagneaux cemetery while the tomb was being prepared and various protests were held. WILDE's remains were finally transferred to PERE LACHAISE on July 19, 1909. (The doctors had advised that OSCAR be buried in quicklime to reduce the body to bone before the transfer. Instead, the substance preserved him, shocking the gravediggers, for his hair and beard had even grown longer.)
it took artist JACOB EPSTEIN three years to sculpt his monument, which represents OSCAR WILDE as a 'winged messenger'. It is done in the egyptian art deco style. When EPSTEIN arrived to put the finishing touches on the statue, he found it shrouded and guarded by police for the cemetery conservator had found it 'indecent' and they wanted it banned & removed !
the statue had an erect penis !
officials refused to bow to public intellectual pressure until an acceptable alteration was made-so a plaque of a fig leaf was put over the 'privates' making them private.
the tomb was FINALLY unveiled in 1914, but by 1922 the erect penis had hacked away! The fig leaf as well as a substantial portion of the stone penis lay beneath.
(rumor has it that the conservator, after finding the parts at the monument's base, was supposed to have used them as paperweight)
OSCAR WILDE's poem , THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL is engraved on the back of the tomb:
and alien tears will fill for him
pity's long broken urn
for his mourners will be outcast men
and outcasts always mourn.
OSCAR WILDE (October 16, 1854 -November 30, 1900)
101 views of OSCAR WILDE's TOMB at PERE LACHAISE Cemetery in Paris.
the story of the statue is a wild one....for it has folklore on its own...the 'winged angel' represents Oscar Wilde with it's enormous erect 'man part'. At the turn of the 1900's this scandalized paris.
only recently, the late 1980's onward, copious women have kissed his grave leaving their lipstick marks. it seems more likely that OSCAR would appreciate guys pressing their lips to his grave. so when ADDA DADA first visited his grave back in the 1980's, he placed a nice smack on OSCAR's grave...sans lipstick, though, for ADDA never could find the right color...
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OSCAR WILDE passed away on November 30, 1900, in L'HOTEL on RUE BEAUX ARTS in ROOM 16.
The room still has the original furnishings including OSCARS death bed. One night is now only 600 euros ($900)! Don't think it is a little hovel of a room. It has a balcony; receiving room, and THE bedroom, which, yes, still has the original wallpaper!
"EITHER THAT WALLPAPER GOES OR I DO" was OSCARS last words on November 30, 1900.
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OSCAR WILDE
Born October 16, 1854 DUBLIN
Died November 30, 1900 PARIS
Oscar's body had to wait 9 years in Bagneaux cemetery while the tomb was being prepared and various protests were held. WILDE's remains were finally transferred to PERE LACHAISE on July 19, 1909. (The doctors had advised that OSCAR be buried in quicklime to reduce the body to bone before the transfer. Instead, the substance preserved him, shocking the gravediggers, for his hair and beard had even grown longer.)
it took artist JACOB EPSTEIN three years to sculpt his monument, which represents OSCAR WILDE as a 'winged messenger'. It is done in the egyptian art deco style. When EPSTEIN arrived to put the finishing touches on the statue, he found it shrouded and guarded by police for the cemetery conservator had found it 'indecent' and they wanted it banned & removed !
the statue had an erect penis !
officials refused to bow to public intellectual pressure until an acceptable alteration was made-so a plaque of a fig leaf was put over the 'privates' making them private.
the tomb was FINALLY unveiled in 1914, but by 1922 the erect penis had hacked away! The fig leaf as well as a substantial portion of the stone penis lay beneath.
(rumor has it that the conservator, after finding the parts at the monument's base, was supposed to have used them as paperweight)
OSCAR WILDE's poem , THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL is engraved on the back of the tomb:
and alien tears will fill for him
pity's long broken urn
for his mourners will be outcast men
and outcasts always mourn.
One of Oscar Wilde's most famous quotes is "I can resist everything except temptation." It comes from his 1892 play LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. If you're a fan of Oscar (as I am), you probably know three other famous quotes from that play. You'll find all of them in this post on my www.ThisDayinQuotes.com site. -> www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/02/cynic-is-man-who-knows-pr...
The good news is that the restoration of the Oscar Wilde installation has been completed with the return of the two minor bronzes to their plinths. The stone plinths or pillars are covered in quotations from Wilde. One has a bronze figure of a pregnant naked woman kneeling on the top, while the other has a bronze male torso. My understanding is that they indicate Wilde's ambiguous sexuality and aesthetic sensibilities.
The other bit of good news is that the orientation of the female nude has been corrected. NOTE: The female nude is Oscar’s wife [Constance Lloyd] who was six months pregnant when Oscar had his first homosexual encounter. Originally she was facing Oscar but someone tried to steal the bronze and when the authorities restored it they installed it facing the wrong direction and then the tour guides came up with stories to explain why she had turned her back on her husband. She is facing a different direction now but I am not 100% convinced that one could claim that she is now facing Oscar … maybe she should be on the other plinth.
The great man reclines on a rock and is positioned so that he is looking at the last house on the north side of Merrion Square, the house where he once lived. The statue is made from stone of different colours - for example, Wilde's jacket is green stone with red stone cuffs.
My drawing table always looks like this, however I need my kitchen, bathroom, and sewing area to be immaculate or I get the heebie jeebies.
Molly day 76.
He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.
He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So wistfully at the day.
I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was wondering if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
"That fellow's got to swing."
Dear Christ! the very prison walls
Suddenly seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of scorching steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved
And so he had to die.
"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
Which is indeed true, I had hoped to capture several chips spinning, frozen by a decent burst of high speed flash, no problem, although when shooting on your own setting a number of them off is ok and releasing the shutter is ok, but doing both makes getting a shot worth taking a little difficult, here is one of more reasonable shots.
Mild crop and curves tweak from camera raw.
Shot to control depth of field and fast enough to freeze spinning chips.
f4.5 1/1600th ISO400, low level living room lighting, 580EXII subtly diffused
Please press L to view with light box it looks a fair bit better on black!
Macro Mondays shot theme : Oscar Wilde quotes
for 365 and February's Alphabet Fun.
O is for Oscar Wilde
As a pomegranate, cut in twain,
White-seeded, is her crimson mouth,
Her cheeks are as the fading stain
Where the peach reddens to the south.
O twining hands! O delicate
White body made for love and pain!
O House of love! O desolate
Pale flower beaten by the rain!
"La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente"
strobist: Vivtar 285 to camera left through shoot through umbrella, gelled with full CTO at twilight - ambient under exposed to expose slightly for sky in background, flash exposure set correctly.
The former Irish Ferries Rosslare to Cherbourg/Roscoff cruise ferry leaves Belfast for a new career with GNV in the Mediterranean. Oscar Wilde was the last in a long line of Irish Ferries and Irish Continental Line vessels which operated from Rosslare to France. Her effective replacement, W.B Yeats, serves Dublin instead of Rosslare.
Oscar Wilde prenant la pose dans mon parc préféré de Dublin, Merrion Square - beaucoup de monde autour de lui mais le reste du parc est plus calme et très agréable
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Arriving in the Mersey for the first time to dock at Cammell Lairds (No 5) drydock.
NameOSCAR WILDE
FlagCyprus
IMO9524231
MMSI209479000
Call sign5BDG5
Home Port: Limassol
vessel typeRo-Ro/Passenger Ship
Gross tonnage 47592 tons
Deadweight 9500 tons
Length 212 m
Breadth 31 m
Engine type MAN-B&W
Engine model 7L48/60
Engine power 30400 KW
Year of build 2011
Builder STX FINLAND RAUMA - RAUMA, FINLAND
Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Earnest
Dover Thrift Editions - New York, 1990
Cover design by Paul E. Kennedy
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the chosen book for Dublin: One City, One Book, April 2010.
This image is of the title page of the 1925 illustrated edition, published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London features wonderful illustrations by Henry Keen.
The setting has changed since my last visit and now the sculpture is visible from outside the park.
NOTE: The female nude is Oscar’s wife [Constance Lloyd] who was six months pregnant when Oscar had his first homosexual encounter. Apparently she should be facing Oscar but someone tried to steal the bronze and when the authorities restored it they installed it facing the wrong direction.
Merrion Square is a Georgian garden square on the southside of Dublin city centre. The poet, novelist, and satirist Oscar Wilde lived at No. 1, poet W. B. Yeats lived at No. 82, and Daniel O'Connell at No. 58, now home to the Keough-Naughton Center of the University of Notre Dame. The National Maternity Hospital is on the North terrace. A number of houses in the square have plaques with historical information on former notable residents, including A.E. (George William Russell) and Sheridan Le Fanu.
You can find Oscar Wilde's statue in Merrion Square Public Park. The statue shows Oscar Wilde reclining on a large granite rock without a care in the world. The statue is positioned so that he is looking at his old family home number 1 Merrion Square, on the north side of Merrion Square.
Danny Osborne was commissioned to sculpt the Oscar Wilde Statue by the Guinness Ireland group. The process took over two years from start to finish. The sculptor used colored stones and stones with varying textures to give the statue a much more lifelike representation of Oscar Wilde. Green stone is used in Oscar's jacket and red stones are used in the jacket's lapels and cuffs.
Two stone pillars stand nearby the sculpture which are covered in Oscar Wilde quotes.
I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for that-I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Number One Merrion Square is the former childhood home of one of Dublin’s most famous sons, the writer and dramatist Oscar Wilde.
Started new project today with @nievesmontano (I'm @secretgardentoyou2 on Instagram) We are doing a 52/52 project. we both love stilllifes, pretty little things and amazing landscapes so what could be more perfect to collaborate together on this project! Blog love to come x
On November 30, 1900, Oscar Wilde died in the back alley, run down Hôtel d'Alsace (now . remodeled & christened L'HOTEL ) , on RUE BEAUX ARTS in Paris.
It is just off the Seine, near Notre Dame.
Room 16 has the original furnishings including OSCAR's death bed and its 'only' 600 euros a night. The room has a balcony, receiving room, bedroom, and yes, even the original wallpaper remains.
Before falling so ill, Oscar stated, "I can write, but have lost the joy of writing". He spent much time wandering the Boulevards alone, and spent what little money he had on alcohol.
Wilde was sufficiently confined to his hotel to remark, on one of his final trips outside, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go." He passed away on November 30, 1900.
After several years, he was is buried in Pere LaChaise in a monumental tomb. The 'flying angel' is a depiction of Oscar.
It has been defaced many times. The most famous defacement is the missing humongous erect penis ( see photo ) . There are tons of rumors of its demise.
ADDA would like to give you insight to its more current defacement of the LIPSTICK KISSES. You see, since I've been going to Paris in the 1970s, Oscar's tomb is a necessary pilgrimage .
There have been many fun encounters, such as the author gentleman who's family purchased the plot across the way from Oscar's tomb. He will also be buried there, across from Oscar.
There was a cruising encounter with a young man trying to lure your ADDA among the graves behind Oscar. I'm sure Oscar Wilde would approve, though, I did not.
Though the BEST encounter is finding the person who started the LIPSTICK KISSES on the statue ! Yes, of course your ADDA would bump into the person who created such a madness of graffiti LIPSTICK KISSES. ( Now, to prevent further defacement, OSCAR's tomb is now encircled by a clear protective barrier. )
So, WHO started this LIPSTICK KISSES GRAFFITI phenomenon?
A twisted , bizarre woman would visit the tomb almost every day. It was after the third time in one month I noticed IT WAS the same 30ish woman who approached OSCAR's tomb and left a note and gave the tomb a fresh LIPSTICK KISS . (It is easy to notice there are lipstick kisses that are the SAME COLOR on the tomb.)
On the third chance of spotting this woman, ADDA decided to approach the person, and 'chat'. I presented myself as an admirer of OSCAR WILDE, and I presume 'you are , too'.
OH MY...she opened her mouth, if one can call that it, for it had the most jumbled array of teeth one has ever seen. It looked like a cavern of stalagmites. My eyes must of popped out of my head in amazement and disgust. She did not notice that for her eyes were rolling every which way. She spoke in the most alien speak one has ever heard. The woman was a true 'case'. Needless to say, being ever so frightened, I took a few steps back for she clearly was someone that should not be approached.
She gibbered incomprehensibly, then frantically whipped out her lipstick, put it on, and kissed the tomb..... matching the many other times she did the same thing.
I was completely taken aback for she seemed to forget that I was next to her. She lovingly touched the tomb, and then walked away, still chatting to herself.
It dawned on me, that this person has found love and adoration in Oscar Wilde's tomb for clearly it would be incomprehensible that anyone would be able to form a connection with this person. In her fantasy world, she has found her friend. Her lover. OSCAR WILDE, was the sole recipient of her 'alien tears'...and 'outcast mourning',
. .
on OSCAR's tomb is an epitaph FROM The Ballad of Reading Gaol,
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.