Artist field note

Egon Schiele

The body is a raw instrument of self-knowledge.

Four Trees by Egon Schiele
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Four Trees

1917

A landscape of rhythmic trunks and lowering sky carries the tension of a portrait.

The five in one idea

Schiele stripped the figure of polite finish and made vulnerability itself the subject of modern drawing.