Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele's artwork interests me why the way the picture is painted. The lines on the face are used to represent the deep inner emotion, disturbance, and lack of peace. The body is outlined by a different colour than  the rest of this art piece. The lines going to the stomach abruptly stop which makes him look very malnourished.The lines on his ribs are deepened by the shifts in colour showing the ribs are exaggerated making me think that he is tortured and starving. The colours make this piece interesting because its all the very close in colour and when the white is used it really brings the eye to the body structure. The shape in this painting is organic and all of the parts of the body looks rather hollow. The texture looks sharp because of the bones that are shown and rough because of the way the darker colours are added on the body.The picture has a good amount of negative space and the positive space is really busy looking by all the different shades of the colours. This artwork is interesting to me because not only how it looks like but also because the story behind it.