"Oscar Wilde's tomb The tomb of Oscar Wilde is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an accompanying plinth by Charles Holden and an inscription carved by Joseph Cribb. In 1908, Oscar Wilde's literary executor Robert Ross chose Jacob Epstein for the commission of the tomb at a cost of two thousand pounds, which had been anonymously donated for this purpose. Later, in a publication of letters between Ada Leverson and Ross in 1930, ""Letters to the Sphinx"", the anonymous donor was revealed to be Helen"
"was held at the Hermitage, St Petersburg. Hambling is frequently described as a controversial figure. Hambling is a Patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 1998 Hambling completed this outdoor sculpture in central London as a memorial to the dramatist Oscar Wilde, the first public monument to him outside his native Ireland. Fans of Wilde, notably Derek Jarman, first suggested a memorial in the 1980s. A committee, led by Sir Jeremy Isaacs and including the actors Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen and the"
"for this ‘colourful character’ and his gaze directed at the nude male torso all coalesce with our knowledge of his homosexuality. We consequently see an overemphasis on his sexuality in this work, augmented by the nicknames given to it by Dubliners. Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture The Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture is a collection of three statues in Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland, commemorating Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. The sculptures were unveiled in 1997 and were designed and made by Danny Osborne. English sculptor Danny Osborne was commissioned by the Guinness Ireland Group to create a statue commemorating Oscar"
"Peter Tatchell's campaign for a Royal Pardon, the 1997 film Wilde [...] and the public gatherings on the centenary of his death."" Both Lubbock and Spencer pointedly advised their readers not to vandalise the sculpture. However, the cigarette has been repeatedly removed by members of the public (sawn off and replaced, according to Philip Ardagh), ""the most frequent act of vandalism/veneration done to a public statue in London"". A Conversation with Oscar Wilde A Conversation with Oscar Wilde is an outdoor sculpture by Maggi Hambling in central London. Unveiled in 1998, it is the first public monument dedicated to Oscar"
"for his dark and perverse images and grotesque erotica, which were the main themes of his later work. His illustrations were in black and white, against a white background. Some of his drawings, inspired by Japanese shunga artwork, featured enormous genitalia. His most famous erotic illustrations concerned themes of history and mythology; these include his illustrations for a privately printed edition of Aristophanes' ""Lysistrata"", and his drawings for Oscar Wilde's play ""Salome"", which eventually premiered in Paris in 1896. Other major illustration projects included an 1896 edition of ""The Rape of the Lock"" by Alexander Pope. He also produced extensive"
"pediment of the Pantheon, his marble ""Wounded Philopoemen"" in the Louvre and his equestrian monument to General Jacques-Nicolas Gobert in Père Lachaise Cemetery. In addition to that of Gobert, he did sculptures for seven other tombs at Père Lachaise, including the bronze busts of the writer, Honoré de Balzac and physician Samuel Hahnemann. In the ""Musée David"" in Angers is an almost complete collection of his works either in the form of copies or in the original moulds. As an example of his benevolence of character may be mentioned his rushing off to the sickbed of Rouget de Lisle, the"
"co-organizing and participating in a series of Neoist festivals, which began as ""Apartment Festivals"", which were also called simply ""APTs"". His more controversial works involve vandalism and gore, painting large X's in his own blood on the walls of modern art museums including next to two Picasso paintings at the MOMA in 1988 and at the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 2016. In doing so he has been banned from some art galleries, a status he holds with pride. In 2004, he threw a vial of his own blood on a wall beside a sculpture of Michael"
"with Jacques-Louis David. He worked largely in an expressive neoclassical style, illustrated in his statue of ""Philopoemen hurt"" (1837), now in the Louvre. Other sculptors with more enduring fame were François Rude, who made his celebrated ""La Marseillaise"" sculpture (formally known as ""The departure of the volunteers""), a ten-meter high bas-relief for the Arc de Triomphe (1833-36), a project begun by Napoleon and completed by Louis Philippe. Rude also made the romantic ""Napoleon awakening to immortality"" in 1845-47. This illustrated popular movement to restore the reputation of Napoleon and the revolutionary spirit, which had been suppressed under the Restoration, but"
"and Charing Cross Station, behind St Martin's in the Fields church. The unveiling was on 30 November 1998. It was preceded in 1997 by an exhibition at the nearby National Portrait Gallery, bringing together drawings, models and maquettes. The London sculpture was just pipped to the post by the Dublin triptych Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture, designed and made by Danny Osborne and unveiled in Wilde's birthplace, Merrion Square, in 1997. ""A Conservation with Oscar Wilde"", in which Wilde is depicted laughing and smoking, caused considerable friction. (The work was depicted in ""Smoke: a global history of smoking"".) Tom Lubbock, chief"
"outrage because of the erotic nature of many of the drawings. The sculptor F. W. Ruckstull was horrified, writing disapprovingly: ‘In his exhibition of drawings, held on 19 October 1908 in the Galerie Devambez in Paris, he showed the most libidinous set of drawings ever exposed to an invited public, in which there were at least two that were frankly pornographic and for which show he was, by both French and foreign people, called ""beast"", ""monster"", ""vulgar charlatan"", ""sadist."" etc.’ Others were charmed and delighted by the freshness of Rodin's work. The foreword to the catalogue praised the ‘bold, truthful"
"""Dickie Lewis"". Such factors may have focused disproportionate attention on certain aspects of Epstein's long and productive career, throughout which he aroused hostility, especially challenging taboos surrounding the depiction of sexuality. London was not ready for Epstein's first major commission – 18 large nude sculptures made in 1908 for the façade of Charles Holden's building for the British Medical Association on The Strand (now Zimbabwe House) were initially considered shocking to Edwardian sensibilities, again mainly due to the perception that they were sexually over-explicit. In art-historical terms, however, the Strand sculptures were controversial for quite a different reason: they represented"
"Theosophical movement, seen typically in works such as his monumental ""L'Homme-Dieu"" (1903, Brughes: Groeninge Museum) and ""Prométhée"" (1907, Free University Brussels). His most striking achievement, however, is his series of five vast canvases that decorated the Cour d'Assises in the Palais de Justice on the theme of 'Justice through the Ages'. These works, monumental in conception and scale and no doubt amongst his finest, were unfortunately destroyed during the second World War as a result of German bombing of the Palais de Justice on 3 September 1944. The irony of this action in relation to the theme of this cycle"
"tree clumps, sunken curved paths and perimeter planting. Up until the 1960s the park was only open to residents in possession of a private key. Now managed by Dublin City Council, the park contains a statue of Oscar Wilde, who resided in No. 1, Merrion Square from 1855 to 1876, many other sculptures and a collection of old Dublin lamp standards. The Irish American sculptor Jerome Connor, best known for his work Nuns of the Battlefield in Washington DC, designed the public art piece, ""Eire"". The park also contains a sculpture of a Joker's Chair in memory of Father Ted"
"tomb at Dreux. His stone group of ""Justice"" is at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris. Numerous other statues, portrait busts, and medallions came from the sculptor's hand, which gained him a medal of honor at the Paris Exhibition (1878) and the grand prix at that of 1889. Among the paintings exhibited by the artist are a Venus, to which was awarded a medal in 1883, ""Leda"" (1884), and ""Michelangelo studying Anatomy"" (1885), his most dramatic work in this medium. Mercié is known in America primarily for three monuments: the 1890 Robert E. Lee equestrian bronze on Monument Avenue in Richmond,"
"the Avenue de l'Observatoire. Among his finest works is his ""Combat du Centaure"", on which he was engaged for thirty years, the figure of the Lapith having been modelled after the strongman, Eugen Sandow. He also sculpted the monuments of Jules-Auguste Béclard and Edmond About among several of his works at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. He contributed the figures of ""Douai"" and ""Dunkirk"" to the façade of the Gare du Nord, and contributed the figure of Vauban for the façade of the Palais du Louvre. In 1907 an exhibition of his works was held in the École des Beaux-Arts."
"""The Guardian"" opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. Maggi Hambling Maggi Hambling (born 23 October 1945) is a British painter and sculptor. Perhaps her best-known public works are the sculptures ""A Conversation with Oscar Wilde"" in London and ""Scallop"", a 4-metre-high steel piece on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten. Both works have attracted a great degree of controversy. Maggi Hambling was born in Sudbury, Suffolk She had two siblings, a sister, Ann, who was 11 years older, and a brother, Roger, nine years older than Hambling. Her brother had wanted a brother but"
"Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, John Parkinson (a botanist), and André le Nôtre (a landscape gardener). The bronze statues are of the explorers and navigators Henry the Navigator, Gerardus Mercator, Christopher Columbus, and Captain James Cook. He made a memorial in white marble to actress Sarah Siddons, called ""Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse"", which stands on Paddington Green, London near the churchyard of St Mary's Church where she is buried. A statue of Cardinal Newman by Chavalliaud is installed at Brompton Oratory in London. In the salon of the French Artists' Society in 1897, he presented a statuette of Dom"
"A Conversation with Oscar Wilde A Conversation with Oscar Wilde is an outdoor sculpture by Maggi Hambling in central London. Unveiled in 1998, it is the first public monument dedicated to Oscar Wilde outside his native Ireland. It takes the form of a bench-like green granite sarcophagus, with a bust of Wilde emerging from the upper end, with a hand clasping a cigarette. The memorial was first suggested during the 1980s and early 1990s by fans of Wilde's work, including Derek Jarman. Following Jarman's death in 1994, a committee called ""A Statue for Oscar Wilde"" was formed to bring a"
"Chris Smith, the Culture Secretary. Thomson picked up 108 votes (0.4%). In spring 2003, artist Cornelia Parker was allowed by the authorities to wrap Auguste Rodin’s sculpture ""The Kiss"" (1886) in Tate Britain in a mile of string. Many people felt it offensive to the original artwork and an act of vandalism rather than art. As a reaction, Stuckist artist Piers Butler cut the string, while couples stood around engaging in live kissing. However, this was described as an individual action outside the main Stuckist group by Thomson, who nevertheless took the opportunity to remark: ""I was puzzled that Parker"
"tomb of Oscar Wilde at Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris (1911–12). In 1915, he was a founding member of the Design and Industries Association and he was a member of the Art Workers' Guild from 1917. Unsuccessful competition entries for which he produced designs include Strathclyde Royal Infirmary (1901), Manchester Royal Infirmary (1904), County Hall (1907), the National Library of Wales (1909), Coventry Town Hall (1911) and the Board of Trade building (1915). The Holdens shared a strong sense of personal duty and service. In the First World War, Margaret Holden joined the ""Friends' Emergency Committee for the Assistance of"
"Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture The Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture is a collection of three statues in Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland, commemorating Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. The sculptures were unveiled in 1997 and were designed and made by Danny Osborne. English sculptor Danny Osborne was commissioned by the Guinness Ireland Group to create a statue commemorating Oscar Wilde, which was unveiled in 1997, by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland. The initial budget of IR£20,000 was later increased to IR£45,000. Since marble alone was deemed inadequate, the statue was formed from different coloured stones from three continents. The torso is"
"Eric Gill Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (; 22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter generally viewed as being at odds with his sexual behaviour, including his erotic art and sexual abuse of his daughters and his sisters. Gill was named Royal Designer for Industry, the highest British award for designers, by the Royal Society of Arts. He also became a founder-member of the newly established Faculty of Royal Designers for"
"he provided six of the twelve festive, flexing, grimacing atlantes for which he is most remembered. For the Zwinger he also provided the sculptures for the ""Nymphenbad"" fountain. He died in Dresden. His most famous independent, free-standing sculpture is an over-lifesize marble ""Apotheosis of Prince Eugene"" (1718–21; Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna), where the main figure, depicted with the attributes of Hercules, and secondary figures of Fame and a fallen Turk are linked in a tour-de-force of complicated Berninian diagonals that did not satisfy Prince Eugene of Savoy's classicizing taste. His two polychromed wood figures of St Augustine and St Ambrose,"
"these paintings ended up in the collection of erotica collector and diplomat Khalil Bey, but are now exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, respectively. Another work from the 19th century, ""Lysistrata haranguing the Athenian women"" (1896), by Aubrey Beardsley depicts a group of naked women, with one of them about to manually stimulate another. More famous is, ""Damned Women (Femmes damnées)"" (c. 1885), by Auguste Rodin, which is a sculpture of two women in movement on top of one another. ""This section gives examples of lesbian musicians, and few music videos that portray lesbian couples"" ""See"
"pretty art, he made bold, often harsh and massive forms of bronze or stone. His sculpture is distinguished by its vigorous rough-hewn realism. Avant-garde in concept and style, his works often shocked his audience. This was not only a result of their (often explicit) sexual content, but also because they deliberately abandoned the conventions of classical Greek sculpture favoured by European Academic sculptors to experiment instead with the aesthetics of art traditions as diverse as those of India, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands. People in Liverpool, however, nicknamed his nude male sculpture over the door of Lewis's department store"
"be executed in five studios in Rome, as he received orders from all over Europe. Among his most important works are the colossal series of statues of Christ and the twelve Apostles for the rebuilding of Vor Frue Kirke in Copenhagen. Motifs for his works (reliefs, statues, and busts) were drawn mostly from Greek mythology with statues of ""Venus"", ""Mercury"", ""Ganymede"", ""Hebe"", and ""Cupid and Psyche"", but he also created portraits of important personalities, as in his tomb monument for Pope Pius VII in St Peter's Basilica, Rome or the equestrian statue of Jozef Poniatowski in Warsaw. His works can"
"Gill. The two artists were deeply interested in what they saw as the more primal sexuality of Indian and Egyptian art, as opposed to British art. Pennington refers to this period in the Epstein's work as the ""Sun Temple"" period and claims that, having been unable to follow this path with some of his works in Britain, Epstein transferred his new passion onto the Wilde tomb. The monument began as a 20-tonne block of Hopton Wood stone in Derbyshire, England, unveiled to the London press in June 1912. Epstein devised a vast winged figure, a messenger swiftly moving with vertical"
"Dancing the Tarantella"", now in the Louvre, a spirited statue in bronze, which established his reputation. In the same class is his ""Neapolitan Improvisatore"" (1839, Leipzig Museum). His works executed for public buildings include: ""France Protecting her Children"" (1855), a group in the grand style for the Louvre; two bronze caryatids for the tomb of Napoleon in the Invalides; a colossal Christ in the church of the Madeleine; the statues of ""Comedy"" and ""Tragedy"" for the Théâtre Français; marble statues of Dunois, Philippe of France, Chateaubriand, and Richelieu at Versailles; and the group for the Fontaine Saint-Michel, representing that saint"
"also include the Whitney Biennial, New York, in 1987, 1991 and 1995. In 1997, McDermott & McGough mounted a mid-career retrospective at the Provincial Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium. In 2017, the duo opened the Oscar Wilde Temple in Greenwich Village, meant to be a non-secular sacred space for LGBT people. It was in a chapel at the Church of the Village was created in partnership by Alison Gingeras and the New York LGBT Center. In an interview for FourTwoNine magazine, Peter McGough said, ""The Oscar Wilde Temple is our greatest art piece ever, because it’s not about us."
"of Epstein's early commissions is ""Oscar Wilde's tomb"" in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, ""which was condemned as indecent and at one point was covered in tarpaulin by the French police."" Between 1913 and 1915, Epstein was associated with the short-lived Vorticism movement and produced one of his best known sculptures ""The Rock Drill"". In 1915, John Quinn, wealthy American collector and patron to the modernists, bought some Epstein sculptures to add to his private collection. In 1916, Epstein was commissioned by Viscount Tredegar to produce a bronze head of Newport poet W. H. Davies. The bronze, regarded by many as"
"related and his masterpiece is the monument in Père Lachaise Cemetery dedicated to all the dead. He was to work on this for ten years and the inauguration took place in 1899. The ""Monument the Dead"" is disturbing and involves twenty one larger than life size figures all showing different emotions and reactions to death. There is little sentiment in this composition which is uncompromising, secular and human, although there is an inference that a ""light"" will defeat the darkness, with the inscription: As a painter he was said to be influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage. In 1924 Bartholome executed a"
"more than 30 monumental sculptures are exhibited year-round. Among them are works by Gaston Lachaise, Jacques Lipchitz, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, David Smith, Lyman Kipp, William G. Tucker, Bryan Hunt, Mark di Suvero, Michael Heizer, and Richard Serra. When the sculpture garden's first installations occurred, they were sometimes controversial. A woman once called a secretary and complained “I think Norman Geske should be fired, and what's more, he should be asked to leave the state because of all the junk he's introduced into the sunken garden south of the gallery. In 1998, ""Man in the Open Air"", a"
"that the sculpture ""already evokes more favourable response from the public than any other statue I know in London, with the possible exception of Peter Pan"" (a much-reproduced statue, the original of which stands in Kensington Gardens). Charles Spencer, chief drama critic of ""The Telegraph"", while professing his liking for the artist as a person, wrote how he loathed her sculptures. With respect to ""A Conversation"", he wrote: The sculpture was one of five works or events considered in ""The Resurrection of Oscar Wilde: A Cultural Afterlife"", along with ""the consecration of a window in Wilde's honour in Poet's Corner,"