https://lithub.com/a-close-reading-of-the-originally-censored-passages-of-the-picture-of-dorian-gray/
A conversation between Lord Henry and Basil Hallward about Dorian, 1891 book edition: ". . . Tell me more about Mr. Dorian Gray. How often do you see him?" "Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me." "How extraordinary! I thought you would never care for anything but your art."

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/an-excerpt-from-the-uncensored-picture-of-dorian-gray
Wilde famously said that The Picture of Dorian Gray "contains much of me": Basil Hallward is "what I think I am," Lord Henry "what the world thinks me," and "Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps." Wilde's comment suggests a backward glance to a Greek or Dorian Age, but also a forward-looking view to a more permissive time than his own repressive Victorian era.

https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/6407/
Introduction. In the first scene of the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), the painter Basil Hallward confesses to his friend Lord Henry Wotton why he cannot exhibit the portrait of the eponymous hero. Basil admits, 'Where there is merely love, they would see something evil, where there is spectacular passion, they would suggest something vile' (Wilde, 1889-90: 21).

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7190-queer-fear-dorian-the-devil
S tanding before his friend Basil Hallward's portrait of him, the paint barely dry, Dorian Gray implores to some unseen force: "If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old . . . For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"

https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/picture-dorian-gray/sexuality-sexual-identity-quotes-3.html
Sexuality and Sexual Identity. Read it in the Book: Chapter 9. Quote #8. He shuddered, and for a moment he regretted that he had not told Basil the true reason why he had wished to hide the picture away. Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.

https://kevinklehr.com/2024/06/09/book-review-the-uncensored-picture-of-dorian-gray-by-oscar-wilde/
These focussed on the horror elements as well as the philosophy Wilde weaves into the tale - the idea of whether our soul is tainted by our actions. This uncensored version restores gay content which the novel's first editor feared would offend readers back in 1891. Portrait artist, Basil Hallward, paints Dorian's picture.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/08/08/deceptive-picture
The focus on Basil is not surprising, given that Wilde later declared, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26304010
An artist (Basil Hallward) falls head over heels for Dorian Gray the first time he sees him, and is subsequently so "ab sorbed" (28) by his "idolatr[ous]" (145) passion that he offers up his "whole soul" (28) to the beautiful boy. This "extraor dinary beauty" inspires another man (Lord Henry) to enlist

https://scholar.umw.edu/student_research/536/
Namely, Basil Hallward and Dorian Gray himself emerge as the primary focus of this analysis. In addition, the paper asserts that Dorian's portrait acts as a sort of double for the text itself, which is unable to explicitly acknowledge its own sexual implications, foregrounding the text in the concepts of repression and male same-sex desire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde.A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The novel-length version was published in April 1891. . The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYkdfBXg5CE
Dorian Gray (2009)I do not own the rights of the content showed.© Studios Ealing, Alliance Films, UK Film Council

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/section7/
The most telling evidence of Dorian's guilt can be seen as he sits waiting for the arrival of Alan Campbell; Dorian draws and soon remarks that "every face that he drew seemed to have a fantastic likeness to Basil Hallward." This scene resonates with the Chapter Nine scene in which Dorian asks the artist to draw a picture of Sibyl Vane so

https://medium.com/gay-old-times/gay-fiction-oscar-wildes-the-picture-of-dorian-gray-f622b7e2b344
Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was published first by Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890, and then as a revised and lengthened book in 1891. The tale is a unique

https://thisbookisbanned.com/banned/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-the-story-of-a-closeted-psyche/
Setting the scene with flowers Wilde's use of floral imagery in the opening paragraphs of The Picture of Dorian Gray has been seen as linking Basil Hallward's studio to Victorian London's Artists' colonies - which it absolutely does. [14] Given the popularity of floriography during this time, however, we can't ignore Wilde's choice of flowers and what these selections reveal.

https://interestingliterature.com/2021/02/oscar-wilde-picture-of-dorian-gray-summary-analysis/
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's one novel, published originally in 1890 (as a serial) and then in book form the following year.The novel is at once an example of late Victorian Gothic horror and, in some ways, the greatest English-language novel about decadence and aestheticism, or 'art for art's sake'.

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol11/iss2/4/
In his article "The Gay Artist as Tragic Hero in The Picture of Dorian Gray" Henry M. Alley discusses the central artistic figure in Oscar Wilde's novel, Basil Hallward. As the novel's tragic protagonist, he commands the most pity and fear and serves as the most dynamic member of the dramatis personae. Alley contextualizes his discussion within Aristotle's Poetics, contemporary criticism, as

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/chapter-1
Analysis. The novel opens in the gorgeous flower-filled rooms of Basil Hallward 's house. Lord Henry Wotton and Basil are together in the studio, considering the portrait that Basil has been working on, of a slim, handsome youth. Henry praises it very highly, but Basil says he will not send it anywhere.

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/characters/basil-hallward
Basil Hallward Character Analysis. Next. Sybil Vane. The painter who becomes enamored with Dorian Gray 's beauty and innocence, seeing him as the ideal to which his work has always aspired. He makes Dorian sit for hundreds of portraits. When one day he paints a portrait of true likeness to Dorian, his feelings overwhelm him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKEWB7y5zyo
#fanvidfeed #doriangray 'Together we've created something beautiful'Recently I finished rereading Dorian Gray and watched the movie (yes, I haven't before) s

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/character/basil-hallward/
Basil Hallward. Basil Hallward is a talented, though somewhat conventionally minded, painter. His love for Dorian Gray changes the way he sees art; indeed, it defines a new school of expression for him. Basil's portrait of Dorian marks a new phase of his career. Before he created this masterwork, he spent his time painting Dorian in the veils

https://ivypanda.com/essays/relationships-between-dorian-gray-lord-henry-and-basil-hallward/
The relationships between Basil Hallward and Dorian Gray and between Dorian Gray and Lord Henry represent the two most common human romantic attractions - the first is physical love, as seen in Basil's obsession over Dorian's beauty, and the second is an emotional attachment, as seen in Dorian's devotion to all of Lord Henry's beliefs

https://seattlegayscene.com/event/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde Adapted by Judd Parkin Directed by Victor Pappas June 6-July 1, 2018 Tickets at book-it.org #bookitrepthtr #DorianGray. When the irresistible Dorian Gray sees the magnificent portrait his friend Basil Hallward has painted of him, he laments that he will grow old while the picture will always remain young.

https://www.enotes.com/topics/picture-dorian-gray/questions/why-dorian-gray-kill-basil-picture-dorian-gray-297394
Dorian Gray kills Basil in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" because Basil has seen the grotesque transformation of Dorian's portrait, a visual manifestation of his moral decay. Fearing exposure of his