The creative, insightful and compassionate left has lost it's second foot soldier of the week after cancer took the great Jackie Leven after several of life's other cruel weapons had failed. Shelagh Delaney has sadly passed away by the same hand at 71. A bit like our own David Bradley she is best remembered for her first work the groundbreaking play 'A Taste of Honey' written when only seventeen years old. A massive influence on art, everyone with a realist, liberal caring outlook, from Ken Loach to Morrissey to me. Gave us the balls to stand up for our beliefs and proved that art can be important, current, compassionate, beautiful and humorous all at the same time. Art is about life and life is about art, whether you are aware of it or not. Try to see the superb film adaptation of 1961, starring Dora Bryan, Murray Melvyn and the outstanding Rita Tushingham in the lead. Fifty years on and still fresh as a daisy! "The dream's gone but the baby's real..." God bless. http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/nov/21/shelagh-delaney
I dunno. I think there's much of the philosophy of Nietzsche in some of Hemsworth Tyke's earlier works (after he got syphilis and went mental)
A tad patronising as well...'Art is about life and life is about art, whether you are aware of it or not.'
Don't worry about it - all the best eulogies are written ****ed out of your head (although my Grandma didn't agree with that when I delivered this stirring address to the congregation at my Granddad's funeral: "He was my best fuc-king mate in the world, and I'll see anyone outside who says otherwise. Any birds want to give me a blow-job?")
Well... which is it, make your mind up, either art is about life or vice versa, you can't have it both ways. Or is art about 8 pints of spitfire, in which case, get yer easels out for the lads, get yer easels out for the lads.
