Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

He died at only 28, but in his time created some of the most famous paintings of all times. He showed great deals of  expression through his artwork. He had an obsession with "obscure" and "obscene" (male figures masturbating, nude female bodies in explicit postures) which some people might be disturbed or offended by. His work fulfilled many of the elements in art including line, with thin sketched lines outlining the majority of the work to keep the negative and positive spaced defined combing the two elements. He used contrasting colours that are close on the colour wheel to keep a more neutral aspect. The texture he created was by the way he painted and the dark to light colours he chose. The dark face shows inner anger and feelings he was expressing. Value was shown similarly to how texture was, the way he applied to paint affects the way it was presented to the public. Space has a huge role I personally think in this work of art because he wants the negative space of the background to have an appeal to the boy in this drawing, space changes the perspective of the painting.