{"product_id":"9783836504423-schiele","title":"Schiele","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEgon Schiele was just 28 years old when he died of Spanish influenza in 1918, but with the prolific portfolio he left behind, he continues to startle and influence. This monograph explores the artist’s defiant, provocative, often pornographic style which shook Viennese high society and produced some of the most penetrating and haunting portraits in art history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, \u003cstrong\u003eEgon Schiele \u003c\/strong\u003e(1890–1918) was a \u003cstrong\u003epioneer of Austrian Expressionism\u003c\/strong\u003e and one of the most \u003cstrong\u003estartling portrait painters\u003c\/strong\u003e of the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mentored by Gustav Klimt, Schiele dabbled in a glittering Art Nouveau style before developing his own much more \u003cstrong\u003egritty and confrontational aesthetic of sharp lines, lurid shades, and mannered, elongated figures.\u003c\/strong\u003e His prolific portraits and self-portraits stunned the Viennese establishment with an \u003cstrong\u003eunprecedented psychological and sexual intensity\u003c\/strong\u003e, favoring \u003cstrong\u003eerotic, exposing, or unsettling poses\u003c\/strong\u003e in which he or his sitters cower on the floor, languish with legs akimbo, glower at the viewer, and thrust their genitalia into the foreground. His models are at times skeletal and sickly, at other times strong and sensual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Many contemporaries found Schiele’s work to be not only ugly but\u003cstrong\u003e morally objectionable;\u003c\/strong\u003e in 1912, the artist was briefly \u003cstrong\u003eimprisoned for obscenity\u003c\/strong\u003e. Today, his oeuvre is celebrated for its \u003cstrong\u003erevolutionary approach to the human figure\u003c\/strong\u003e and for its direct and particularly fervent, almost furious brand of draftsmanship. This book presents key Schiele works to introduce his short but urgent career and his \u003cstrong\u003eprofound contribution to the development of modern art\u003c\/strong\u003e, which reaches right through to such contemporary talents as Tracey Emin and Jenny Saville.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40405579137121,"sku":"9783836504423","price":15.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34504709.jpg?v=1747946615","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9783836504423-schiele","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}