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Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Loki Bruckman, 1903-1995 (Dutch magic realist painter).

* Loki Bruckman lived and worked in the Netherlands, the United States, and Mexico.

Bruckman painted figuratively, forest views, and other still lifes with fruit, flowers, shells, eggs, feathers and towels. His style can be described as realistic, surrealistic or magic realistic. Museum de Oude Wolden in the village of Bellingwolde has a permanent exhibition of his paintings.

His life partner Evert Zeeven died on 30 November 1993. One and a half years later, Bruckman died on 24 April 1995 in Leeuwarden, at the age of 91.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Lodewijk Karel Bruckman, 14 August 1903, 13:30 (1:30pm) (-0:19:32), Den Haag, Netherlands (52n06, 4e18). ASC: 21 Scorpio. RR: AA (from birth record on file). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes birth certificate n° 4048 from the Den Haag archives: "des namiddags ten half twee uur" (at half past one in the afternoon). (twin brother of Karel Lodewijk born 9:30am; n° 4047).

Monday, 13 July 2015

Casey Legler (French swimmer, model, artist)

* Casey Legler has been described as the "world's first female male model" after becoming the first woman to exclusively sign on the men's books of Ford Models.

She was born in the South of France, attended school in Florida, and began competitive swimming at the age of 12. She competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics at the age of 19.

Legler came out as lesbian when she was 21.

She is currently writing a memoir about her swimming career, due for release next year.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Casey Edelle Legler, 26 April 1977, 19:30 (7:30 PM) CEDT (-2), Fréjus, Var, France (43n26, 6e44). ASC: 26 Libra. RR: AA (Quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield has a letter on file obtained by Marc Brun from the Frejus mayor's office quoting original birth record.

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Sunday, 12 July 2015

Léopold Survage, 1879–1968 (Russian-born French painter)

* In 1913, Léopold Survage produced abstract compositions entitled Rythmes colorés which used colour and movement to evoke a type of musical sensation. From 1917, he shared a studio — and a penchant for alcoholic excesses — with Amedeo Modigliani in Paris. Survage later moved to Nice where he produced highly structured oils and works on paper linked together by a series of leitmotifs, repeating groups of symbolic elements — man, sea, building, flower, window, curtain, bird — as if they were protagonists in a series of moving images. He died on 31 October 1968.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Léopold Frédéric Sturzwage, 31 July 1879, 21:30 (9:30 PM) LMT (-2:30:20), Moscow, Russia (55n45, 37e35). ASC: 4 Aries. RR: AA (From quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites his baptismal record translated into French by the Imperial Russian Consulate in Nice in 1917 as quoted in Daniel Abadie's "Survage: les années héroïques" (Musée d'art moderne, Musée Matisse [Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France],1993), p. 120: "1879 31 JUILLET Naissance à Moscou à 9 heures et demie du soir de Léopold Frédéric Sturzwage, fils de Léopold Edouard, citoyen de Villmanstrand (actuellement Lappeenranta en Finlande) et de Marie Caroline Emma Eggholm (ainsi qu'en témoigne son acte de baptême traduit au Consulat impérial de Russie à Nice en 1917)."

Friday, 26 June 2015

Max Meldrum, 1875–1955 (Scottish-Australian painter)

* Max Meldrum is known as the founder of Australian Tonalism, a representational style of painting that emerged in Melbourne during the 1910s, as well as for his portrait work, having won the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940.

Meldrum's unique theory of painting (Uranus on MC) was based on "the importance of tonal values and objective optical analysis, resulting in simple representational works characterised by a 'misty' or atmospheric quality" (nebulous Neptune is exactly opposite his Ascendant).

This pioneering artist also had the zero degree of Scorpio on his Ascendant and six planets (including Pluto opposite and ruling Jupiter-Mercury in Scorpio) all in a Fixed Grand Cross. Meldrum's "published theories of art created a storm in the Australian art world, and his school of painting attracted equally passionate followers and critics."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Duncan Max Meldrum, 3 December 1875, 04:30 (4:30 AM) GMT (+0), Edinburgh, Scotland (55n57, 3w13). ASC: 00 Scorpio. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record ("Born 4.30 and I’m fairly sure it was am"), requested by Sy Scholfield.

Hugh Ramsay, 1877-1906 (Australian artist)

* Hugh Ramsay was one of Australia's leading portraitists. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved with his family to Melbourne, Australia in 1878. A trip to Europe in September 1900 led to study in Paris, France, but suffering from tuberculosis, he soon returned to Australia where he died aged 28. Ramsay's major works include The Sisters and Lady with a Fan.

He had Cancer rising ruled by Moon in intimate Scorpio: "He was close to his family and, of his large output from ten years of active work, they are often his subjects."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 25 May 1877, 06:30 (6:30 AM) GMT (+0), Govan, Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 4w15). ASC: 13 Cancer. RR: AA (From birth record). SOURCE: Caroline Gerard quotes birth record, requested by Sy Scholfield.

Friday, 30 January 2015

John Lydon (English singer, songwriter, musician, visual artist)

* In his 2014 autobiography Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored, John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten, lead singer of punk band the Sex Pistols) writes "I was born in the early wee hours of the 31st, in the bitterly cold January of 1956." A speculative time of 3 a.m. puts the last degree of icy Scorpio on the ascendant, ruled by sex/pistol Pluto high in the sky. "Anger is an Energy" is a keyword phrase for Mars-Saturn in Sagittarius on the ascendant and North Node. And the Moon on the MC in the 10th (using Equal or Placidus Houses) bespeaks the name of his post-punk band, Public Image Ltd (PiL).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: John Joseph Lydon, 31 January 1956, 03:00 (3AM) GMT (+0), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 29 Scorpio. RR: C (rectified from approximate time). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes from "Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored" by John Lydon (Simon & Schuster, 2014): "I was born in the early wee hours of the 31st, in the bitterly cold January of 1956."

The time of 3 a.m. is speculative.

Friday, 22 November 2013

Grayson Perry (English artist)

* Grayson Perry, CBE, is known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as "Claire", his female alter-ego, often appear. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003, the first time it was given to a ceramic artist. He attended the award ceremony dressed as Claire, wearing a little girl party frock. Perry has Taurus rising, ruled by Venus in Pisces in the offbeat 11th House. Double-identity Mercury is conjunct his Venus and both are ruled and trined by Neptune in Scorpio on the Descendant, explaining the sexually explicit content of much of his work.
Data for his chart comes from his autobiography (details below, courtesy of Andrea Miles).

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Friday, 13 September 2013

Pierre et Gilles (French artists)

** "Pierre et Gilles" are romantic/life partners known for their highly-stylized and retouched photographs which feature images from popular culture, gay culture (including porn), and religion. Famous people photographed by Pierre et Gilles include pop stars like Marc Almond, Marilyn Manson, Madonna, and Kylie Minogue; actresses like Tilda Swinton and Catherine Deneuve; and designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier and Paloma Picasso. The duo have Gemini rising in their composite chart, ruled by Mercury in exact conjunction with the Sun and Neptune in Libra. Not to mention unaspected Venus in the last degree of Libra in the creative 5th House. How very artistic! Data and charts below. Many thanks to Marc Brun for finding the data for me.

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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Tony Mendez (American spy, artist, author)

* Tony Mendez has an ideal chart for a CIA spy: a Sun-Mercury conjunction in Scorpio and Mars in the 8th (unaspected except for a wide square from Pluto — nobody will blow his cover). Mendez also has Neptune (ruler of his Pisces Ascendant) in a wedge with his luminaries: in his memoir, The Master of Disguise, Mendez reveals how he forged documents, created disguises and handled other graphical work related to espionage — cunning tricks and insights that helped save hundreds from deadly situations. He is played by Ben Affleck in the film Argo. Affleck's Pluto is conjunct Mendez's Neptune.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Antonio Joseph "Tony" Mendez (born 1940) is an American CIA technical operations officer, now retired, who specialized in support of clandestine and covert CIA operations. He has written three memoirs about his CIA experiences.

Mendez was decorated, and is now widely known, for his on-the-scene management of the "Canadian Caper" during the Iran hostage crisis, in which he exfiltrated six American diplomats from Iran in January 1980. They posed as a Canadian film crew, and as part of their cover, the diplomats carried passports issued by the Canadian government to document them as Canadian citizens.

After declassification of records, the full details of the operation were reported in a 2007 article by Joshuah Bearman in Wired magazine. This was loosely adapted for the screenplay and development of the Best Picture Academy Award winning 2012 American film Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, who also starred as Mendez. Mendez also attended the Golden Globes to give a speech, where the film was nominated (and later won) for Best Dramatic Motion Picture.

Mendez worked as a CIA officer in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. His work in the agency frequently dealt with forging documents, creating disguises and handling other graphical work related to espionage. He served in the CIA for 25 years. He was awarded the Intelligence Star on 12 March 1980.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Antonio Joseph Mendez, 15 November 1940, 14:00 (2 p.m.) MST (+7), Eureka, Nevada, USA (39n30, 115w57). ASC: 3 Pisces. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes birth certificate, copy on file.

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Saturday, 20 July 2013

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (Austrian exiled artist)

* During the Nazi annexation of Vienna in 1938, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and her mother fled her homeland of Austria to seek refuge in London where she would be based for nearly six decades, working among other exiled artists. As an artist-foreigner, she embodied the archetype of her Venus in Sagittarius. With her Sun rising at 29° Libra, it was only at the end of her life that Motesiczky gained recognition as one of Austria’s most important 20th-century painters. Her biography is titled "the undiscovered expressionist": Venus, as ruler of her Sun and Ascendant, is unaspected except for a restrictive square from a retrograde Saturn.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna to an aristocratic family. As her family included Jewish descent, she had to flee the Nazi annexation of Vienna in 1938. Motesiczky, accompanied by her mother Henriette, fled to London. Following the end of the war, Motesiczky exhibited her paintings in many European institutions and she continued to work from her house in London, where she lived only with her mother and a single maid. Motesiczky's major breakthrough in the UK occurred in 1985, with a major retrospective at the Goethe Institute in London, which generated much acclaim and saw her reputation as a major Austrian artist cemented. She died in London on June 10, 1996.

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, 1759–1832 (French miniature painter)

* Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin painted miniatures of many famous people of his time, including Marie-Antoinette, Napoleon I and his family, and Louis XVIII, king of France.
Augustin had the Sun on his MC in creative Leo and the Moon in artistic Taurus, all closely aspected by Pluto, ruler of his Scorpio Ascendant. Pluto is the most miniature of the planets used by most astrologers, being smaller than Earth's Moon. His baptismal record has "Augustin Peintre" written in the margin (see image below).

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (August 15, 1759 – April 13, 1832) first had some lessons from Jean-Baptiste Claudot and Jean Girardet in Nancy. After a few months in Dijon in 1780 he arrived in Paris in 1781 where he soon earned fame. During the French Revolution days he travelled to Brittany, Switzerland and Germany. Back in Paris in 1800 he married one of his pupils, Pauline Ducruet. She was 22 years younger than him and herself a painter in a similar style. In 1806 Jacques Augustin was appointed official painter to the court. Later on (1814) he became painter to the king. He died of cholera in Paris in 1832 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo Credit: Self-portrait, 1796, Musée Pierre-Noël - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - Société Philomatique Vosgienne.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Note also the very arty Neptune in Leo on the MC at the apex of a Yod. Eris is another miniature planet increasingly used by astrologers. It is conjunct Pluto and also aspecting the luminaries and MC.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, 15 August 1759 NS, 12:00 (12 noon) LMT (-0:27:48), Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France (48n17, 6e57). ASC: 9 Scorpio. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (©) quotes the baptism certificate in the Vosges archive, Saint-Dié, parish of Sainte-Croix. "Augustin Peintre" is written in the margin (see below).

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Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Piero Manzoni, 1933–1963 (Italian artist)

* Piero Manzoni ― who thumbed his nose at the art-world establishment ― had Saturn rising in Aquarius opposite Venus in Leo. His most famous artwork, "produced" in 1961, consists of ninety 30g tin cans, filled with his faeces, and labelled Artist's Shit in Italian, English, French, and German. Manzoni had Neptune unaspected in anal Virgo on his Vertex.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. Manzoni is most famous for a series of artworks that call into question the nature of the art object, directly prefiguring Conceptual Art. His work eschews normal artist's materials, instead using everything from rabbit fur to human excrement in order to "tap mythological sources and to realize authentic and universal values".

His work is widely seen as a critique of the mass production and consumerism that was changing Italian society (the Italian economic miracle) after World War II. Italian artists such as Manzoni had to negotiate the new economic and material order of post-war Europe through inventive artistic practices which crossed geographic, artistic, and cultural borders.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Piero Manzoni, 13 July 1933, 21:25 (9:25 p.m.) CET (-1), Soncino, Italy (45n24, 09e52). ASC: 19 Aquarius. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes GraZia Bordoni by email (10 July 2013) for data by letter from the registrar.

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Sunday, 7 July 2013

Alice Prin, 1901–1953 (a.k.a. Kiki de Montparnasse; French artist model, nightclub singer)

* Alice Prin, who adopted the mononym, "Kiki", became a fixture in the Montparnasse social scene and a popular artist model, posing for dozens of artists. Nicknamed the "Queen of Montparnasse," Kiki had her MC in poseur Leo ruled from the libertine 11th House by the royal Sun in artistic Libra (at the apex of a T-square involving trend-setters Jupiter and Neptune). "She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the early 1920s."

Alice Prin: Wikipedia Biography

Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953) was a French artist model, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter.

She posed for many artists, including Chaim Soutine, "Julian Mandel" (a pseudonym), Tsuguharu Foujita, Constant Detré, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Arno Breker, Alexander Calder, Per Krohg, Hermine David, Pablo Gargallo, Mayo, and Tono Salazar. Moise Kisling painted a portrait of Kiki titled Nu assis, one of his best known.

Her companion for most of the 1920s was Man Ray, who made hundreds of portraits of her. She is the subject of some of his best-known images, including the notable surrealist image Le violon d'Ingres and Noire et blanche.

She appeared in nine short and often experimental films, including Fernand Léger's Ballet mécanique without any credit.

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Emily Carr, 1871–1945 (Canadian artist and writer)

* Emily Carr ― "an artist of stunning originality and strength"¹ ― had ingenious Uranus in the ultra powerful and creative first degree of Leo conjunct her MC, plus artistic Venus rising in forceful Scorpio.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a modernist and post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life. As she matured, the subject matter of her painting shifted from aboriginal themes to landscapes, and in particular, forest scenes. As a writer, Carr was one of the earliest chroniclers of life in British Columbia. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a "Canadian icon".

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Marià Fortuny (Spanish, Catalan painter)

* Marià Fortuny ― noted for his "prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color" which "anticipates impressionist brushwork" ― had anticipatory Uranus on his MC in mutual reception with impressionistic Neptune.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Marià Fortuny i Marsal (June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was the leading Catalan painter of his day, with an international reputation. His brief career encompassed works on a variety of subjects common in the art of the period, including the Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, military painting of Spanish colonial expansion, as well as a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.

The greater influence of travel on Fortuny was his subsequent fascination with the exotic themes of the world of Morocco, painting both individuals and imagined court scenes. He visited Paris in 1868 and shortly afterwards married Cecilia de Madrazo, the daughter of Federico de Madrazo, who would become curator of the Prado Museum in Madrid. Together, they had a son, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, who became a well-known fashion and tapestry designer.

Fortuny paintings are colorful, with a vivacious iridescent brushstroke that at times recalls the softness of Rococo painting but also anticipates impressionist brushwork.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo Credit: Self portrait by Marià Fortuny (1863-73).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal, 11 June 1838, 06:00 (6 a.m.) LMT (-0:04:28), Reus, Spain (41n09, 01e07). ASC: 10 Cancer. RR: AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Jean Charles Davillier, Life of Fortuny with His Works & Correspondence (Porter & Coates, 1885), pp. 9-10: "Mariano Fortuny was born at Reus, June 11th, 1838, at six in the morning ... Here is the literal translation of his baptismal certificate '... He was born at six o'clock, this morning. His parents were the married couple, Mariano Fortuny, cabinet maker, and his wife, Teresa Marsal.'"

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