I've always enjoyed contemplating the value of art. Oscar Wilde wrote that "The only reason for making a useless object is that one admire it intensely. All art is quite useless". Oscar should know. I find in his writing a supreme example of the power that art has to immortalize its subject.
"The Picture Of Dorian Gray" is Wilde's sole novel; he wrote some poetry, children's tales, and, what he is most famous for, plays, but "Dorian Gray" is his only full-length work of fiction. It's the story of a handsome artist's model who's so admired by the artist he is posing for that the artist imbues his painting with the ability to age in place of Dorian. Dorian is immortalized. What most don't realize is that Wilde was doing the same.
His love of the time(pre-Alfred Douglas) was John Gray. John Gray became Dorian Gray in the novel, & Wilde used the novel to immortalize him forever in tribute of love. Quite spiritual I say. Do you believe art has spiritual qualities? Examples?
2007-07-31
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Jack B, sinistral
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