TIGblogs - S de C

I'm not sure if it's still open, actually, I doubt it is, but, the Modigliani exhibit was exquisite. He invented elegance. It's sort of a cliche, but, the paintings were so much more gorgeous in person. The one to the right is a portrait of Lunia Czechovska. I love the hollow blue eyes. I'm such an art nut. I'm aiming to buy the entire Taschen artist collection. So far, I have: Caravaggio, Chagall, Dali, Kahlo, Matisse, Modigliani and Schiele. I really want to get: Basquiat, Botticelli, de Lempicka, Degas, Durer, Magritte, Marc, Michelangelo, Miro, Monet, Munch, Picasso, Turner, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rubens, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bacon, Balthus and Velazquez.

It's my birthday tomorrow. Yippee. Happy 17th. I might be going to the AGO with my mum.

Apparition (Anaemia)
cowering beads of sweat
retreat to the origin of fear
pores dilate, and reverse the
melancholic phases of the
phoenix stigmata.

the iridescent tears convert
to onyx, pools of oil erupt
and bleed out through the holes
of my martyred body.

People who share my birthday (February 28):
Lemony Snicket, Bernadette Peters, John Turturro, Guy Maddin, Brian Jones, Bugsy Siegel, Eric Lindros, Karolina Kurkova, Linus Pauling, Smarty Jones, Ali Larter, Michel de Montaigne, Vincente Minnelli, Natalia Vodianova, Gilbert Gottfried, Mario Andretti, Gavin MacLeod, John Buchanan, Mercedes Ruehl, Randy Jackson (ha ha!)

Other remotely well-known pisceans:
Gloria Vanderbilt, Robert Altman, Sidney Poitier, Mike Leigh, Patty Hearst, Kelsey Grammar, Kurt Cobain, Anaïs Nin, Alan Rickman, Chuck Palahniuk, George Washinton, Rembrandt, Schopenhauer, Julie Walters, Kyle MacLachlan, Drew Barrymore, Handel, W.E.B. DuBois, Peter Fonda, Wilhelm Grimm, George Harrison, Anthony Burgess, Edward Gorey, Victor Hugo, Johnny Cash, John Steinback, Ariel Sharon, Elizabeth Taylor, Ralph Nader, Botticelli, Chopin, Ron Howard, Dr. Seuss, Tom Wolfe, Lou Reed, Alexander Graham Bell, Jean Harlow, Vivaldi, Michelangelo, Cyrano de Bergerac, David Gilmour, Rob Reiner, Maurice Ravel, Gary Numan, Lynn Redgrave, Raul Julia, Charles Gibson, Thora Birch, Juliette Binoche, Kim Campbell, Sharon Stone, Douglas Adams, Liza Minnelli, James Taylor, Billy Corgan, Albert Einstein, Michael Caine, Quincy Jones, Wolfgang Petersen, Billy Crystal, David Cronenberg, Jerry Lewis, Linda Fiorentino, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Updike, Brad Dourif, Wyatt Earp, Ursula Andress, Bruce Willis, Ovid, Napoleon II, Henrik Ibsen, Carl Reiner, Tracy Chapman, Holly Hunter, Spike Lee, Bobby Orr, William Hurt, David Thewlis