I've been in Galveston, Texas for the last week teaching workshops and judging the Outdoor Painters Society's Plein Air Southwest event. The many beautiful paintings of boats brought to mind a number of great paintings of boats from art history, so this week's #MuseumTourTuesday features a piece by Austrian artist Egon Schiele.
This painting is a rich stylization of the subject in an expressionistic manner. Many of the lines, both in the rigging and the water reflections, were created by dragging the back end of a brush through the thickly applied paint, revealing a darker color below. Painted when the artist was only 17, it shows the quality of draftsmanship that Schiele would become known for in his later figurative and self-portrait work.
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| "Hafen von Triest (Harbor of Triest)" • Egon Schiele • Oil and Pencil on Card • 1907 • 25 x 18 cm • Private Collection |
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