Egon Schiele, Austro-Hungarian
For Scott and Tammy, the Low Point of Their Son’s Birthday Party Was Losing at Strip Pin the Tail on the Donkey, 1918
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here, here, here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here (Google translated), here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more).
/// “The Family” by Egon Schiele
shows a trio whose nude skins reveal a
blotchy, zombie-like state.
Was it something they ate?
Or did Egon paint high on tequila?
/// The blotches we see in each nude
might be caused by a painter who’s “stewed.”
Drink conceivably taints
motor skills when he paints,
and distorts how his models are viewed.
/// Their flesh appears luridly mottled,
as though each had been bruised being throttled.
Is their skin seared and sore
from a nuclear war,
or from acid improperly bottled?
/// Do his paintings appear saturnalian?
Some say Schiele’s forebears were Westphalian.
But consider his name.
Though it’s not spelled the same,
we know Sheila’s a girl who’s Australian.
/// It is almost as though Schiele knew
his grim future, and this part is true.
First, unborn child and wife
became ill, drained of life.
Egon too, in three days— killed by Flu.
/// An explosion their genders revealed.
(With no clothing it can’t be concealed.)
What they’d worn couldn’t last
through the powerful blast,
now they all need to go and get healed.
> or <
/// To fight zombies, their tries were half-hearted.
They got bit; now they’re “dearly departed.”
Wouldn’t be in a queue
for some grey-matter stew
if they’d had any brains when this started.
> or <
/// Long-time nudists come off as blasé.
They don’t look at bare bodies “that way.”
Fat or thin, short or tall;
stretch marks? They’ve seen ‘em all.
But that infant stays diapered. OK?