The Portrayal of Femme Fatales by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt: A Comparison
Tania Haddad
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Femme Fatale
They say that there is a fine line between a genius and a madman; however the statement would be more adequate if it would state that there is fine line between a good artist and a great artist. Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt are both very famous artists, recognized for their own work, yet one must differentiate the works of these two outstanding artists,. Although a lot of Schiele’s work has been influenced from the works of Klimt, he nevertheless distinguishes his own initiative, and painting in his more open unique attitude.
Klimt was known for the symbolism in his work and working with the “Art Nouveau” movement that made him establish a rather gold rich, erotic atmosphere in his paintings, the same atmosphere that we later on see and feel in some of Egon Schiele’s painting and drawings. Schiele however was more into a different movement that also reflected on his work, which was the expressionists movement. Both Klimt and Schiele were highly interesting in understanding the female figure, not as an anatomy but rather as a sensual and erotic manner, even though people considered it as pornographic images, to them it was considered art. Schiele drew the body in a more disproportional, abstract way while Klimt was more into highlighting the features and hidden deforms, nonetheless at the end they both came up with a similar result.
As I mentioned above Klimt usually used symbolism in his paintings and drawings, to illustrate his point out in a clearer approach, for example, the drawing of a lot of naked woman portrays how he wants to be free, free to draw whatever he wants or do whatever he pleases, free of judgment, while Schiele to express his freedom and took it to a new level where he was arrested for exposing explicit paintings of young girls. He always was outspoken and blunt, Schiele always drew exactly was on his mind, which was always on another level of understanding to those of no wide
ENG 100
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Femme Fatale
They say that there is a fine line between a genius and a madman; however the statement would be more adequate if it would state that there is fine line between a good artist and a great artist. Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt are both very famous artists, recognized for their own work, yet one must differentiate the works of these two outstanding artists,. Although a lot of Schiele’s work has been influenced from the works of Klimt, he nevertheless distinguishes his own initiative, and painting in his more open unique attitude.
Klimt was known for the symbolism in his work and working with the “Art Nouveau” movement that made him establish a rather gold rich, erotic atmosphere in his paintings, the same atmosphere that we later on see and feel in some of Egon Schiele’s painting and drawings. Schiele however was more into a different movement that also reflected on his work, which was the expressionists movement. Both Klimt and Schiele were highly interesting in understanding the female figure, not as an anatomy but rather as a sensual and erotic manner, even though people considered it as pornographic images, to them it was considered art. Schiele drew the body in a more disproportional, abstract way while Klimt was more into highlighting the features and hidden deforms, nonetheless at the end they both came up with a similar result.
As I mentioned above Klimt usually used symbolism in his paintings and drawings, to illustrate his point out in a clearer approach, for example, the drawing of a lot of naked woman portrays how he wants to be free, free to draw whatever he wants or do whatever he pleases, free of judgment, while Schiele to express his freedom and took it to a new level where he was arrested for exposing explicit paintings of young girls. He always was outspoken and blunt, Schiele always drew exactly was on his mind, which was always on another level of understanding to those of no wide