Kneeling Female Nude
1911
Egon Schiele was the ultimate rebel of the Vienna art scene, and this 1911 drawing captures his scandalous style perfectly. Just a year after creating this, he was actually arrested for 'public immorality' because of his explicit nudes! Here, he strips away all the romance of traditional art, using jagged, nervous lines to draw a woman who is both vulnerable and defiant. She wears a fancy hat but is otherwise bare, staring back at the viewer with an intense gaze that refuses to look away.
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