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SCHIELE, Egon: City on the Blue River II

Jagged architecture tilts across a vibrant blue river in expressionist distortion, rendered with anxious, angular brushwork. Schiele's 1911 landscape captures early modernist anxiety about urbanization, rejecting naturalistic perspective for psychological intensity characteristic of Austrian Expressionism.

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