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Schiele Painting Techniques

Thursday, July 23, 2009
 

Instructions

History

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    Schiele Portrait from CatalogueIn 1909, Schiele was a founding member of the Vienna based Neukunstgruppe (New Art Group), whose vivid, jagged style expressed the anxieties and traumas of life in the new century.

Technique

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    Egon Schiele, Schiele's painting technique employed vibrant color and asymmetric lines to produce tension in the distorted bodies and exaggerated faces of his major portraits.

Significance

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    Schiele concentrated on psychological studies in the form of self-portraits and allegorical representations of the life cycle, from the act of inception to the encroachment of death.

Prison

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    Schiele made sexuality and eroticism one of his major themes, and in 1912 was briefly imprisoned for public indecency.

Famous Ties

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    At the urging of his friend and mentor Gustav Klimt, Schiele exhibited at the 1909 Vienna Kunstschau, where he saw for the first time the work of Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh.

Resources

Photo/Video Credit

flickr.com/photos/indieman/126168037, flickr.com/photos/torisan3500/502951615, flickr.com/photos/wm_archiv/3282478261

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