Two women embraced.
A pupil of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was one of the major figurative artists of the early 20th century and a leading exponent of early Viennese expressionism along with Oskar Kokoschka.
Egon Schiele’s life is surrounded by a mystical aura: a precocious talent, he died at the young age of 28. Despite his short life, his body of work is impressive: some 340 paintings and 2,800 watercolors and drawings…
The work is two women embracing from 1913 is on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Author: Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Poster size: (30 x 40 cm)
Printed on 220G light ivory Vergé paper.
Publisher: Salam Éditions
His work is known for its expressive intensity, psychological introspection and communication of inner unease through his many portraits.
The subjects are often naked men and women, symbolic of his complex relationship with the female sex, figures often not completed in their entirety.
A number of poems and photographic experiments are also found in his creative trove.
His particular style places him among the painters of the Expressionist movement.
Schiele is not considered a figure of the Viennese Secession movement because of the intentional impulses emanating from the cheerful reality.
Schiele is influenced by the precious and refined language of Gustav Klimt, but his painting is a journey into psychological introspection.
In sanguine reds, gloomy browns, pale yellows and blacks he paints pathos in melancholy landscapes: withered trees, desperate mothers and grieving children.
His are signs that lay bare the unconscious, taking on a depth with much more pronounced emotional contours.
The artist introduces existential and psychological erotic tension to spread a message of social criticism against bourgeois falsehood.
Rather than a liberation from the self, this art attests to a conflict within the individual subject vis-à-vis its disputed authorities, the academy and the state.
On a rough and rugged surface, Schiele shows without false modesty, an eroticism devoid of moralism and without joy.
The protagonists are maidens with childlike faces and deliberately impudent attitudes, women dominated by an uninhibited sexuality screamed in the silence of their souls.
Schiele was fascinated by Van Gogh ‘s highly personal chromatic charisma and paid homage to him with The Room in Neulengbach, the inspiration for The Yellow Room.
He also reinterprets Sunflowers, in a dull, brown-colored version where the petals lose texture and acquire the decadent tragic force of the real thing.
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