Squatting Female Nude
1910
Egon Schiele was the ultimate bad boy of Austrian Expressionism, and this 1910 drawing captures his raw, unfiltered style perfectly. He wraps the squatting figure in a jagged white outline, making her pop against the brown paper like a modern sticker. Instead of painting a perfect, idealized goddess, Schiele gives her sallow skin, knobby knees, and an intense, almost confrontational stare. He was actually arrested and jailed for creating erotic drawings like this one, which makes you wonder what the censors of 1910 would think of today's art!
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