I believe that man must suffer from sexual torture as long as he is capable of sexual feelings.
— Egon Schiele (via withdoom)
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egonschiele: 1918 Egon Schiele ~ Bemalte Bauernkrüge (Painted Jugs)
I don’t know why this is one of my favorite illustrations ever, but it is.
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Egon Schiele’s work is one of my guilty pleasures in art. It’s grotesque, sometimes “borderline pornographic”, but i enjoy it. In fact, I think it’s quite beautiful in some inexplicable way. As a protégé of Gustav Klimt, who’s one of my favorites, it’s really no surprise that I’m attracted to his work. It’s also no surprise that his life makes for quite a scandalous story.
read more here: www.moma.org/exhibitions/1997/schiele/artistwork.html
Luke used to say if I was a painting I would most likely be one by Egon Schiele.
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Reclining Semi-Nude, 1911
Watercolor, gouache, and pencil
Private Collection
Egon Schiele often pushed boundaries in his life and with his art. The most famous episode in Schiele’s career involves the case of a fourteen-year-old girl named Tatjana von Mossig, who ran away from home in April 1912. She sought refuge with Schiele and his model Wally Neuzil. Schiele was arrested on charges of kidnapping and also accused of having sexually molested her. Schiele was ultimately acquitted on both the count of kidnapping and sexual misconduct, but was found guilty of displaying indecent images where minors could have viewed them. In fact, he even led officials to a drawer where he reportedly stored over 100 similar works.
During his twenty-four-day imprisonment, known as the Neulengbach Affair, he executed a number of poignant sketches, many of which were self-portraits that had to be made from memory because he had no access to a mirror. During his trial one of his erotic drawings was burned in the courtroom. After this troubling experience, Schiele largely turned away from using children as models.
This 1911 work entitled Reclining Semi-Nude, which depicts a girl with her skirt lifted up, is the type of drawing that would have caused a stir in a staunchly conservative and primarily Catholic-bourgeois society. Her provocative pose and flushed cheeks raise eyebrows even today considering the age of the model. This watercolor would have held appeal for a small circle of collectors whose purchases helped support the young artist. Schiele once exclaimed, “Even the erotic work of art is sacred!”
This is one of my favorite pieces, ever.
“Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn’t a single muscle which doesn’t serve its purpose; that there’s not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.”
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Egon Schiele
Embracing Couple, 1911 - Egon Schiele
(via afriendtorunto) Egon Schiele, Autumn Tree in the Wind
Bemalte Bauernkrüge (Painted Jugs), 1918 - Egon Schiele
If I ever get a tattoo I want something by Schiele.
Her body reminds me of Egon Schiele… Lovely.