Klimt vs Schiele

schiele

more gritty

i thought you'd already done this

I've had my eye on this book for a while but it's almost $150 from Amazon ($200 from the publisher).

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Klimt's a perv

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Klimt's a perv

― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, April 10, 2019 7:37 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And Schiele isn't?

i did klimt vs. klee before xp

this time i'm keepin it "vienna" like billy joel

Schiele, baby!

klimt

less gritty

I'm tempted to say Schiele is more brutally honest, but I think there's as much stylistic manipulation in his drawings as in Klimt's more overtly decorative work. I haven't, and would love to, see a proper Klimt exhibition. I saw this Schiele painting once and it was absolutely incandescent:

https://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/16944544/Egon-Schiele-Portrait-Of-Paris-Von-Gutersloh-Canvas-Art-6ae4e9a9-9ca9-4fb3-ba0e-6f7ca09366df_600.jpg

Schiele easily.

Kid schiele’s hair was on point https://storage.canalblog.com/51/64/1344545/121792861.jpg

I thought we'd already done this. Schiele was a tremendous talent, so was Klimt tbf and I love some of his nature studies much more than the goth society portraits that ppl mainly seem to love. But I find Schiele a much more exciting talent, and his work evokes something of a brief lost world of early 20th century Austro-Hungarian society before the apocalypse and his own premature death.. I dunno what I'm trying to say here.. but as well as the beautiful economy of his line there is something quite tragic in his work as well.

Lol that’s awesome

Also, both are great but Schiele takes it. I love the kind of shambling langorousness of his figures. They chose a Schiele painting for the cover of Rilke’s ‘Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge’ and I’ve forever twinned their art in my mind.

Oh, xp. Was lol-ing at Schiele’s hair

I love and have misgivings about both. I agree with calzino that Schiele is the more dynamic of the two, so I'm inclined to pick him over Klimt, but the straight-up porn does very little for me. Then again, artistic depictions of sex generally leave much to be desired (I don't say this out of prudishness, I'm just… apathetic towards sex in art).

https://imgc.allpostersimages.com/img/print/poster/egon-schiele-portrait-dr-hugo-koller-1919_a-G-2580529-8880730.jpg

Schiele all the way for me.

Funny you should mention Rilke, tt. The most widely distributed French edition of Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge pulled the same trick:

https://p3.storage.canalblog.com/34/80/485506/27892097_p.jpg

his work is just so imbued with that era, and he was an incredible talent. He was practically a kid ffs!

I'm continually failing to articulate what I feel here, but some artists can be great stylists and still make incredibly hollow art. Schiele was a great stylist and his work for me is sort of imbued with the spirit of his subjects and the era in a very striking way that a photograph might fall short. Or something like that - don't worry I won't take it personal if someone does lol at my shitposting!

I totally agree. Schiele was like this exciting wild card element that seemed to totally rewrite what was acceptable in art at the time. I'm not a huge fan of art's often unimaginative reverence of sex either, but Schiele's depictions of sexuality just feel so messy and the dark pleasures within so genuinely subversive, and yeah like calzino said, so apocalyptic, that it all sings in this smoulderingly unabashed way.

The Penguin Classics version of the Rilke book I know uses this picture, so it's interesting that publishers have chosen that connection in different ways.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/The_Notebooks_of_Malte_Laurids_Brigge.jpg/220px-The_Notebooks_of_Malte_Laurids_Brigge.jpg

I saw dozens of comic book references to Schiele before seeing any Schiele. Kent Williams, bill s, those people.

I went looking for more of his art recently, after the documentary aired on bbc2, and the bits I didn't know, the drawings and paintings of buildings were a revelation.

Klimt too has a lot of great stuff that isn't the stuff that everyone knows.

I like the smutty schiele tbh.and not from a titillating perspective

It's mildly grotesque in a clement freudy way

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tsk.

Klimt wuz robbed

yes, didn't see this poll and didn't vote but I think so too