Egon Shiele was an Austrian artist, born 1890. At 15 he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. In 1912, he was put in jail because of immorality charges (not too surprising, looking at his artwork) and he died from the Spanish flu in 1918. If my pathetic math skills are correct, he was only 28, so young!
Many of his models were young girls, and he also had an incestuous relationship with his little sister, so pretty much, he was a pedophile. Ew, but I still love his art style.
Right. I'm going to concentrate on talking about his art style so I don't get creeped out.
His pieces all look very sketchy, and I mean that in line quality, not content (tho one could argue both!) Many of his drawings, especially the ones that are not incredibly colored/detailed, appear to be a single line, as he uses the outline as a prominant part of his works. Some of his paintings seem not only sketchy, but appear to have some scribble characteristics, as if he took his pen, or pencil, or his tool of drawing, and quickly scribbled some circles or whatnot in the specific place like over an eye, as I believe he did in a self portrait. Also, many of his figures are elongated, and one could say not very pretty. I would describe his pictures to have a "grunge" quality to them, which is something that I am drawn to, as he is not making his figures idealized or pretty.
"Girl in Underclothes" 1917
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