Klimt vs Schiele

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