The core oeuvre of Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was produced within barely a decade, at the beginning of the twentieth century. His famous nudes probed the existential core of human experience. The paintings of British artist Jenny Saville (born 1970) are equally intense, with their physicality and confrontational stance. This catalogue brings the work of these two artists together for the first time. The stylistic and thematic proximity of the "body-landscapes" and portraits by these two young painters is ...
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The core oeuvre of Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was produced within barely a decade, at the beginning of the twentieth century. His famous nudes probed the existential core of human experience. The paintings of British artist Jenny Saville (born 1970) are equally intense, with their physicality and confrontational stance. This catalogue brings the work of these two artists together for the first time. The stylistic and thematic proximity of the "body-landscapes" and portraits by these two young painters is revealed, despite the decades separating their work and their varying use of the brush. The paintings and drawings of both artists lend the human body an insistent corporeality, rendered in every detail. In Schiele's self-portraits, usually small-format works, the pose, the accentuated view from below and his gestural style give the images a visual impact equal to the forceful punch of Saville's giant-format paintings.
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New in New jacket. Size: 11x0x15; [ART]. Jenny Saville, Egon Schiele, Oskar Bätschmann, Christoph Becker, Maria Becker, Martin Harrison, Diethard Leopold, Helena Pereña, Franz Smola, Oliver Wick. "Egon Schiele / Jenny Saville." Ostfildern, DE: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014. English language. Hardcover in jacket. 12 x 16 in. 30 x 40 cm. 176 pp. Text clean. New. ISBN: 9783775738514."This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Egon Schieleâ€"Jenny Saville at Kunsthaus Zurich in 2014â€"15, which brought together works by the two artists for the first time. Revealing stylistic and thematic affinities in their body-landscapes and portraits despite the decades separating them and the differences in brushwork, curator Oliver Wick described the exhibition’s pairing as “a juxtaposition that unites contrast and convergence. â€ÂWith over 160 illustrations, this large-format English-edition exhibition catalogue reproduces paintings and works on paper by both artists at an expansive scale and features new scholarship on each artist separately and within the context of the other’s work. Oskar Batschmann, Diethard Leopold, Helena Perena, Franz Smola, and Wick analyze aspects of Schiele’s figure painting and landscapes; Maria Becker and Martin Harrison devote essays to Saville’s work; and Martin Harrison and Oliver Wick compare the two artists’ oeuvres. The title also includes chronologies on both artists, as well as archival photographs."
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