Striding Torso in Green Blouse
1913
Egon Schiele was the bad boy of Austrian Expressionism, and this 1913 sketch shows exactly why he caused such a scandal. He crops the figure right at the neck, forcing us to focus entirely on the raw, angular movement of the legs and that heavy, textured green blouse. It looks like a quick study, but Schiele's jagged, nervous lines capture an electric energy that makes the figure feel like it's vibrating off the page. He was only 23 when he drew this, already mastering a style that stripped away polite realism to show the uncomfortable, twitchy truth of the human body.
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