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SCHIELE, Egon: Mother and Child

🖼 Mother and Child, 1912
Vienna, Austria

Two skeletal figures intertwine in raw, angular brushstrokes—mother and child merged in unsettling intimacy. Schiele's expressionist vision strips away sentimentality to expose psychological vulnerability and bodily fragility, challenging early-20th-century ideals of maternal beauty.

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