More Endless Art

Yesterday, I shared the lyrics to Endless Art. Geraint reminded me of the b-side of the single, entitled More Endless Art. This version lists female artists. Here are the lyrics to the song, containing relevant Wikipedia links…

All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde
Colette 1873 to 1954
Marilyn Monroe 1926 to 1962
Billie Holiday 1915 to 1959 RIP
Emily Dickinson 1830 to 1886
George Eliot, Margot Fonteyn, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen
Edith Piaf 1915 to 1963
Sylvia Plath 1932 to 1963
Simone de Beauvoir
Jean Stafford 1915 to 1979
Gracie Fields
Vivien Leigh 1913 to 67 RIP

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

Masters of their arts
Anais Nin 1903 to 1977
Charlotte, Anne, Emily Bronte
Janis Joplin 1943 to 1970
Hilda Doolittle, Mata Hari
Eleonara Duse 1859 to 1924:”(Wikipedia has her year of birth as 1858, as do most online references.)”:
Anne Frank 1929 to 1945
Degeneration art, Jean Rhys, RIP
Ingrid Bergman 1915 to 1982
Bessie Smith 1895 to 1937
Maria Callas, Julie London:”(Julie died in 2000, quite a few years after the song was recorded.)”:, Judy Garland, Gertrude Stein
Greta Garbo 1905 to 1990
Virginia Woolf 1882 to 1941
Louisa May Alcott 1832 to 1888
Mary Shelley, Grace Kelly RIP

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

Jane Austen 1775 to 1817
Louise Brooks 1906 to 1985
Joyce Grenfell 1910 to 1979
S.E. Hinton:”(It seems as though she is very much alive, publishing her latest book in 2004.)”:, Enid Blyton, Edith Sitwell
Isadora Duncan 1878 to 1927
Ivy Compton-Burnett 1892 to 1969
Walt Disney’s Minnie Mouse RIP

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

Endless Art

As a public service, here are the lyrics to Endless Art with links to the relevant Wikipedia articles (except one artist who links elsewhere as he does not yet have an entry). Endless Art is a song from the classic album I Am The Greatest by A House (the first CD I bought!).

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, Johnnie Ray
John Donne 1573 to 1631
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 to ‘92
Degeneration art, Joan Miro, RIP
Jackson Pollock 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

Lib Dem Flag

This is a flag I designed for the Liberal Democrats in a moment of creativity some time ago. Oh, the levels that this works on…

South Park Mr Payne

You can create your own South Park character at the South Park Studio. I guess I would look something like this:

A Man And His Mouse

Liam drew a portrait of me. Do you think it is a good likeness?

A Painting

This is a photo I took of a painting at the Nasjonalgalleriet, Olso. I can’t remember the name of the painting or the artist. I found it rather scary.