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OSCAR WILDE Purple.
Oscar was always hated in establishment quarters in England and always much loved in Ireland. We loved his wit, his perfect put-downs, his bon mots, and his funny, erudite and thoughtful plays. More than anything he epitomized freedom of thought and freedom of expression and did he pay the price for that, traduced, destroyed and jailed famously in Reading Goal (Jail). Now we have a superb and newly iconic statue of Oscar right opposite his house on Merrion Square, Dublin so we can all do a selfie with him, I included 🙂
I did two posters of Oscar, one in two-colour purples and a black and white one to fit the series I was working on back then.
anthony (verified owner) –
What a wonderful fine art print of revolutionary dandy, Oscar Wilde. A champion of freedom of expression in all it forms, and by his very existence a challenge to anything that “sought to fence / In straitened bonds the soul that should be free.,”
Every time I see or glimpse this poster, it warms my heart and gives me a little extra courage to face whatever the day might bring.
Has Jim FitzPatrick written all over it. The purple on purple works
fantastically – feel certain only Jim and Oscar could pull that off! 🙂
“Is it thy will that I should wax and wane,
Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey,
And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain
Whose brightest treads are each a wasted day?”
I think not!
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