First night in Vienna

VIENNA 
Leopold Museum
19th - 21st May

Here are a series of photographs taken of artwork by Egon Schiele last weekend at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. I chose these specific paintings and my sister took the photographs (one of the perks of being an identical twin - and she got to use the creative brain cell for that weekend).  Schiele has been an influence on my textile and print work - his vibrant use of colour and intricate pattern details combined with brilliant gold decoration - and also the almost organic way in which he interprets the figurative.

girl with yellow cloth

The work is sensuous and fluid, spreading across the canvas. Each organic linear nude appears to be grounded to the canvas with a block of colour. The balance and contrast is evocative and beautiful. My current large-scale line and block colour silkscreen prints have been worked into with gold acrylic, chinagraph and pencil, creating slabs of brightness growing within the overlapping linear figures - colours which 'burn'.

My mixed media silkscreen print

"bodies have their own light which they consume to live, they BURN they are not lit from the outside".
Egon Schiele

Life and Death

The Virgin

Judith with the head of Holofernes

The Kiss