Egon Schiele’s Peculiar Gestures

<p>Not too late after Schiele started drawing a great number of portraits and self-portraits in search of his unique style back in 1910, his models and objects started to make some curious gestures with their hands. Authors and art historians agree that his expressionist style was emerging and the bodies of his models stretched more and more in order to demonstrate different emotions. They believe that Schiele was looking for ways to show what is insight his models and he was not interested in painting their physical likeness. However, what I was wondering about, all the way whilst writing my thesis on his work was: why exactly those gestures and did they mean anything?</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/art-direct/egon-schieles-peculiar-gestures-955d27d614e9"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>