The wildness of Schiele’s art — raw and unsparing in its - TopicsExpress



          

The wildness of Schiele’s art — raw and unsparing in its fleshly decadence but rendered with a boldly elegant, even classical sense of abstraction — and the controversial aspects of his personal life (suspicions of incest with his younger sister; explicit drawings of underage models; a 24-day jail sentence for public immorality) seem tailor-made for today. His images, often splayed against a stark, blank backdrop, confront us with a hedonistic nihilism that feels oceans away from the luxe, perfumed Expressionism of his mentor, Gustav Klimt. Oblivion stalks us daily, and Schiele’s cadaverous bodies, drawn with pitiless, razor-like precision, don’t let us forget it.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:55:01 +0000

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