This work was created during the creative peak in the short life of the artist Egon Schiele. A few years earlier, Schiele had developed his extraordinary and avant-garde drawing style, which made him one of the most important and outstanding artistic personalities of the past century. In his unmistakable illustrations he explored the expressive possibilities of the body far removed from the traditional ideal of beauty. He set the ugly, the grotesque, the distorted against the then dominating beauty cult of Viennese modernism and consequently advanced to possibly the first enfant terrible of modernism. The illustration of the standing woman with a blue shawl illustrates Schiele's characteristic drawing style. The figure of the overly slender lady appears deformed and emaciated by the fragmented and sharp-edged lines. The impression of morbidity and frailty is reinforced by the nervous and fragile lines. Tentatively executed colour accents, which adorn the woman's entire body in pale shades of green, blue and red, make it appear battered and worn. Emaciated and resigned, she gazes towards the ground. The monochrome background makes her appear isolated from the outside world. Nevertheless, the bright red lips and nipples contrast with the pale complexion to convey a delicate eroticism. The antagonistic subject of eroticism and death is also a leitmotif in Schiele's work. The filigree lines, marked at certain points by abrupt projections and indentations, represent a stylistic component in Schiele's artistic work. Through emphatically expressive gestures, he manipulates the nude drawings to convey a psychologically charged body language. The subjects of tragedy and deformation also serve to transfer mental states into pictorial compositions. In general, he had a great interest in psychological borderline experiences and the body language of the mentally ill. Schiele's explicit depictions of eroticism and sexuality, coupled with disfigured, bent bodies with often severed extremities, exploded the artistic and moral conventions of the time, so much so that he was even sentenced to prison for "disseminating indecent drawings". Today, his works fetch top prices on the international art market.

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Standing Female Nude with Blue Cloth by Egon Schiele. Available as an art print on canvas, photo paper, watercolor board, uncoated paper or Japanese paper.
woman · white · naked · sensual · breasts · white · nipples · hair · undressed · erotic