Egon Schiele Reproductions: Self Portrait as St. Sebastian

Description: The Art of Egon Schiele Self Portrait as St. Sebastian (for a Poster), 1914-1915 Fine Art Reproduction Image Size: 14 x 10 inches This reproduction is a new, individually printed and proofed, superior quality, giclee* process, fine art print. It is printed on 100% cotton rag acid-free, heavyweight fine art paper with a luxurious textured watercolor paper finish and archival pigment inks to ensure permanence. Created for collectors, it IS NOT A POSTER or mass produced print on low quality, inexpensive paper. Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918 - pronounced approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century who tragically died at the age of 28 in a Spanish Flu epidemic. Schiele's body of work is noted for the intensity and the large number of self-portraits he produced. The twisted body shapes that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings make the artist a notable exponent of Expressionism. There were no limits to what Schiele put on paper in drawing, watercolor and gouache. You get a rare feeling in his depictions of women that here is an artist deploying immense skill for his own self-expression, in private, apparently unconcerned about public perceptions. His self-portraits are notoriously phallic and erotic. He pictured the human body eroticized in a startling, animal way, without sentiment and excuses. The results are some of the most revolutionary, savage and liberating artworks of the 20th century. Schiele takes little interest in women as people. Women for Schiele are almost always archetypal; in portraits they have severe, masklike faces; in full-figure drawings they are interchangeable objects of desire. There is often something overripe in his female figures, as though the body were a barometer of moral degeneration. In a poster for an exhibition of his paintings Egon Schiele drew on the age-old tradition of presenting St. Sebastian as a symbol for the artist himself suffering the pangs of artistic creation. Despite its importance, it is a tradition still unknown to today's art historians. Nevertheless, ever since the early Renaissance Sebastian's arrows have symbolized the painter's brushes. Moreover, given that the arrows, or rather "the brushes", point inwards to penetrate the saint himself, the idea is conveyed from one artist to another that "every painter paints himself." Even the unusual points to the arrows in Schiele's image seem to suggest the softness of brushes more clearly than the hardness of steel. The execution of the saint is, furthermore, a visual homonym for the execution of the work of art with the death of the saint/artist symbolizing its completion. Two other characteristics of the saint and his experience are important symbols for the artist: the suffering that he experiences prior to death and the purity of his mind. The former is a metaphor for the violent creative struggle in the artist's mind to conceive the image while the latter symbolizes the artwork's quality, purity as perfection. Just as a saint’s life imitates Christ’s suffering and redemption as a guide for our own, so the artist’s mind in the process of creation follows, allegorically at least, the suffering and redemption of the saint’s example. Original Medium: Gouache, black crayon on cardboard. Reproduction: Heavyweight Fine Art Paper; pigment inks Image Size: 14 x 10 inches printed on larger 17 x 13 inch paper to allow ample borders for matting and framing About Our Prints The brilliant colors and fine line detail of our reproductions offer the best quality for price performance available online or in shops today. We guarantee that you will be pleased with the superior quality of our prints and encourage you to review our detailed feedback profile comments from past buyers: “Gorgeous, superior quality prints.” “Definitely the best print I have ever bought on Ebay” “Its beautiful! Great addition to my collection.” I invite you to view the other superior quality prints I also have on sale in my eBay Store, Da Vinci Art Prints or by clicking on ‘See other items’ at the top of this listing. Please email me with any questions **the giclee process produces a superior quality, fine art reproduction from a high-resolution digital file of an image. The file is then printed with a high-resolution photo generation printer on a fine art paper. Most artists and working photographers today use the giclee process to produce reproductions of their original artwork and photographs. As with any original art or fine art reproduction, it is recommended that prints are framed and displayed under glass to prevent color fade or shift over the years. Shipping Policy: Combined Shipping Costs on Multiple Print Orders Since I offer multiple Fine Art Reproductions on eBay concurrently, I combine orders to reduce your mailing costs. For multiple print orders please request invoice that will include final shipping and handling charges. US First Class Mail & First Class Mail International Prints ship in a premium quality, heavy protective cardboard tube, US First Class Mail or US First Class Mail International.

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