April 6, 2012

All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde

 
Turner 1775 to 1851 
Toulouse-Lautrec 1864 to 1901 
Andy Warhol 1928 to 1987 RIP 
Ernest Hemingway 1899 to 1961 
George Orwell, Jimi Hendrix, William Butler Yeats, Jack B. Yeats 
Richard Redgrave 1804 to 1888 
Henry Moore 1896 to 1986 
Henry Miller, Sid Vicious only 21 
Brian Jones 
Otis Redding 1941 to 1967 RIP 

All dead, yet still alive 
In endless time, endless art 

Masters of their arts 
Claude Monet 1840 to 1926 
Beethoven, Bach, Brahms 
Elvis Presley 1935 to ‘77 
Man Ray, Johnny Ray 
John Donne 1573 to 1631 
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 to ‘92 
Degeneration art, Joan Miro, RIP 
Jackson Pollack 1912 to 1956 
John Lennon ‘40 to ‘80 
Henry Lamb, Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, William Shakespeare 
Brendan Behan 1923 to 1964 
Tennessee Williams 1912 to 1983 
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 to 1889 
Pissaro, Picasso, Degas RIP 

All dead, yet still alive 
In endless time, endless art 

Joseph Conrad 1857 to 1924 
Jack Kerouac 1922 to 1969 
Keith Moon 1946 to 1978 
D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Mozart 
Van Gogh 1853 to 1890 
Ian Curtis, Salvador Dali, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Walt Disney’s 
Mickey Mouse RIP 

All dead, yet still alive 
In endless time, endless art