Endless art

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Endless art

Just been aimlessly trawling the internet as is my usual habit when at work being paid money to raise funds for those less fortunate than ourselves and I came across this. This was one of my favouritest songs when I was a hideous, spotty teenager but enough with the painful memories...

... anyway it's just a list of 'greats' in the arts. Would anyone disagree with the names? Care to add some more?

Also, please note that all the artists are men. When this was pointed out they wrote 'More Endless Art' featuring only women but I can't find the lyrics to that.

Anyway, enough of my yakking ...

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Endless Art

All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde

Turner 1775 to 1851 Toulouse-Latrec 1864 to 1901 Andy Warhol 1928 to 1987 RIP
Ernest Hemingway 1899 to 1961 George Orwell, Jimi Hendrix, William Butler Yates, 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, Ben Lindiam(?) 1923 to 1964 Tennessee Williams 1912 to 1983 Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 to 1889 Pizarro, 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

(by A House, 1991)

markbrown
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That's a top song Jon, did you ever get sent flexi discs by the band at christmas? I did, for about three years...
Mark Ashley
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I have no respect for a list that includes Walt Disney and leaves out William Blake
jon smalldon
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markbrown I got the flexi disc that had Curious on one side and Santamental Feeling (I think it was called) on the other. I missed out on the others. There's a greatest hits (note irony) coming out this month I think because the Ireland world cup song was a cover of "Here Come the Good Times".
Henstoat
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It's Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, not the old crone himself. I'm not a big fan of lists like these because, while I recognise the greatness of most of those included, for everyone who reads it there will surely be people who have been left out and people who they can't believe are in it. Everyone should form their own canon.
jon smalldon
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The female version has "Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse RIP" instead of Mickey.
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