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1919; Een vrouw van geen beteekenis [A Woman of No Importance] a play by Oscar Wilde. Original premier was on 19 april 1893 in London's Haymarket Theatre. Cover art by Isidorus Maria Cornelis (Is) van Mens.
"As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant, despite the brevity of his career before his early death from tuberculosis. [Source: Wikipedia]
Here is an example of a tradition we started 20 years ago on our second anniversary, using my photographs, ephemera from our day trips and happy memories. Richard just finished the most creative and fun pages from our trip to Cape Cod last May. Ideas swim in his head for many months before they finally come to fruition in our illustrated journal! I LOVE his handpainted borders and insets!
Coincidentally and interestingly, my first two photos were taken on the beach behind the *spit of land* at the top of the marsh brochure just below.
The *buoys and border* were painted with acrylic.
Watercolor was used for the small corner insets.
This quotation always cracks me up!
"I never travel without my diary.
One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
~ Oscar Wilde ~
101 views of OSCAR WILDE's TOMB at PERE LACHAISE
the story of the statue is a wild one....for it has folklore on its own...apparently it is suspose to represent oscar wilde...and the 'man part' scandelized paris.
i love the fact that so many woman have put on copius amounts of lipstick and kissed his grave...seems more likely that he'd appreciate the male models pressing their lips to his grave, so when ADDA DADA first visited his grave back in the 1970's...and ADDA was a tad bit a looker..I placed a nice smack on his grave...sans lipstick, though, for ADDA never could find the right color...hahaha
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here is a blurb from PERMANENT PARISIANS a tour of the cementaries of PARIS...ISBN 0-930031-03-2.. available for purchase on HALF.COM
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OSCAR WILDE
Born october 16, 1854-dublin...died november 30, 1900 paris
after a wait of 9 years in bagneaux cemetery, WILDE's remains were 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 transfer. insstead, the substance perserved him, shocking the gravediggers, his hair and beard had even grown longer.)
it took JACOB EPSTEIN three years to sculpt his monument, which represents OSCAR WILDE as a winged messenger, 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 a gendarme, the cementary conservateur had found it 'indecent' and had it banned.
officials refused to bow to public intellectual presure until an acceptable alteration was made-so a plaque of a fig leaf was put over the 'privates' making them private.
the tomb was unveiled in 1914, but by 1922 students, in nocturnal raids, had hacke away the fig leaf as well as a substantial portion of what lay beneath.
(another 'story' is that two englishwoman, offended at WILDE's being publicly portrayed so well-endowned, committed the emasculation themselves. the conservateur, after finding the parts at tHE monument's base, is supposed to have used them as paperweight)
on the back of the tomb is his words 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.
Although the Irish playwright spent a great deal of his time in England the country of his birth has chosen to honor him with a statue in Merrion Square. The author of “The Importance of Being Ernest” and “De Profundis” has a rather gaily colored statue, imposingly sprawled on a granite mound, by which to be remembered.
It does have to be said that his recumbent position could be seen as somewhat expectant and perhaps a little provocative (I mean, cross your legs, Oscar...) but the nicknames for this work? Nothing less than “The Queer with the Leer”. A little cruel perhaps, but the alternative is “The Fag on the Crag”. It must be said that these are tongue in cheek names: most Dubliners have a great fondness for Oscar.
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© Marcos Duarte
Tread Lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.
Oscar Wilde
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
©2013 Scott Photo Co.
©2013 Scott Photo Co.
Vintage optical lens with a picture of Oscar Wilde with some pieces from De Profundis with the edges burnt and original hand-illuminated illustrations from Salome. For more zee blog www.tartx.com/blog
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.
The sea is flecked with bars of grey,
The dull dead wind is out of tune,
And like a withered leaf the moon
Is blown across the stormy bay.
Etched clear upon the pallid sand
Lies the black boat: a sailor boy
Clambers aboard in careless joy
With laughing face and gleaming hand.
And overhead the curlews cry,
Where through the dusky upland grass
The young brown-throated reapers pass,
Like silhouettes against the sky.
This very popular installation is located in Merrion Square Park in Dublin.
In 2016 I reported that the restoration of the Oscar Wilde installation had 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. One explanation is that they indicate Wilde's ambiguous sexuality and aesthetic sensibilities.
At the time I also reported that the orientation of the female nude has been corrected. It should be noted that 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 sculptor Danny Osborne used complementary colour stones and also sought out stones with varying textures to give a more lifelike representation of Oscar Wilde than you would find in a conventional statue.
Wilde’s jacket is green stone which is complemented by red stone cuffs. The sculpture includes two stone pillars which are covered in quotations by Oscar Wilde. Placed on top of the pillars are two sculptures, one of the sculptures is a bronze figure of a pregnant naked woman kneeling this represents Oscars wife Constance, while the other pillar has a bronze male torso.
The two pillars which flank Oscar Wilde on both sides are used to set out his thoughts, opinions, witticisms on art and life for all to see and judge. These quotes were selected by a mixture of poets, public figures, artists, and scientists, who use Wilde’s own words to pay tribute to him.
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good,but it is better to be good than to be ugly."
-Oscar Wilde
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
©2013 Scott Photo Co.
When I am in PARIS on the anniversary of OSCAR WILDE's death, today, November 30th, I always pay homage to him at his tomb at PERE LACHAISE Cementary . No surprise, I am NOT the only one...
Le navire des Irish Ferries quitte Roscoff pour Rosslare. Demain matin, nous rentrons a Bruxelles après deux semaines de rêve. *Sniff*
Postcard sent to me from my brother Mike in 1997. Have tagged all the people's names on the album cover.