How is the formula art for art’s sake (art is important simply because it is art, and not because it makes money or has any particular use) attached to O. Wilde’s works and creative activity?

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

When art is more varied nature will, no doubt, be more varied also.

Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or forehead or something horrid.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

All art is immoral.

It is thought art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art, and through art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and having done so passes on to other things. Nature, on the other hand, forgetting that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating the effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

In art there is no such thing as a universal truth. A truth in art is that whose contradictory is also true.

(Афоризмы Оскара Уайльда)

Project work

Choose among given topics for discussion the one you are interested in most of all. Explain your choice. Carry out your project work and make its presentation (pair, group or individual work).

Topics for discussion

1. Art in my life.

2. Art and beauty will save the world.

3. My favourite painter and painting.

4. Art and the future.

5. Modern trends in art.

6. Art and fashion.

 

Tomorrow will come
if you value beauty!!!

 

TRAIN A-TRAVELIN’

 

There’s an iron train a-travelin’ that’s been a rollin’ through the years,

With a firebox of hatred and a furnace full of fears.

If you ever heard its sound or seen its blood-red broken frame,

Then you heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name.

 

Did you ever stop to wonder ‘bout the hatred that it holds?

Did you ever see its passengers, its crazy mixed-up souls?

Did you ever start a-thinkin’ that you gotta stop that train?

Then you heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name.

 

Do you ever get tired of the preachin’sounds of fear

When they’re hammered at your head and pounded in your ear?

Have you ever asked about it and not been answered plain?

Then you heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name.

 

I’m a wonderin’ if the leaders of the nations understand

This murder-minded world that they’re leavin’ in my hands.

Have you ever laid awake at night and wondered ‘bout the same?

Then you’ve heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name.

 

Have you ever had it on your lips or said it in your head

That the person standin’ next to you just might be misled?

Does the raving of the maniacs make your insides go insane?

Then you’re heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name.

 

Do the kill-crazy bandits and the haters get you down?

Does the preachin’ and the politics spin your head around?

Does the burning of the buses give your heart a pain?

Then you’re heard my voice a-singin’ and know my name.

Bob Dylan

THE H-BOMB’S THUNDER

 

Don’t you hear the H-bomb’s thunder

Echo like the crack of doom?

While they rend the skies asunder,

Fall-out makes the earth a tomb.

 

Do you want your homes to tumble,

Rise in smoke towards the sky?

Will you let your cities crumble,

Will you see your children die?

 

Must you put mankind in danger,

Murder folk in distant lands?

Will you bring death to a stranger,

Have his blood upon your hands?

 

Shall we lay the world in ruin?

Only you can make a choice.

Stop and think of what you’re doing,

Join the march and raise you voice.

 

Time is short, we must be speedy.

We can see the hungry filled,

House the homeless, help the needy.

Shall we blast, or shall we build?

John Brunner

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

 

How many roads must a man walk down

Before you can call him a man?

Yes, ‘n’ how many seas must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand?

Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls fly

Before there’re forever banned?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.

The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

 

How many times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky?

Yes, ‘n’ how many ears must one man have

Before he can hear people cry?

Yes, ‘n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows

That too many people have died?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,

The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

 

How many years can a mountain exist

Before it’s washed to the sea?

Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist

Before they’re allowed to be free?

Yes, ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head,

Pretending he just doesn’t see?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,

The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Bob Dylan

THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

 

Hello darkness, my old friend,

I’ve come to talk with you again,

Because a visions softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping,

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence.

 

In restless dreams I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

‘Neath the halo of a street lamp,

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

That split the night

And touched the sounds of silence.

 

And in the naked lights I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more.

People talking without speaking,

People hearing without listening,

People writing songs that voices never share

And no one deader

Disturb the sounds of silence.

 

«fools» said I, «You do not know

silence like a cancer grows.

Hear my words that I might teach you

Take my arms that I might reach you.»

But my words like silent raindrops fell,

And echoed

In the wells of silence

 

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made.

And the sign flashed out its warning,

In the words that it was forming.

And the signs said, The words of the prophets

are written on the subway walls

And tenement halls.

And whisper’d the sounds of silence.

Simon and Garfunkel

 

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