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SCHIELE, Egon: Black-haired Girl with raised Skirt

🖼 Black-haired Girl with raised Skirt, 1911
Vienna, Austria

Twisted limbs and angular brushwork capture raw vulnerability, the figure's raised skirt and direct gaze confronting viewer conventions. Schiele's 1911 work epitomizes Expressionist provocation, challenging Viennese propriety through psychological intensity and deliberate formal distortion.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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