Word: klimt
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...while his work was influenced deeply by the French impressionists, and by the patterned, mosaic-like paintings of Gustav Klimt, then the dean of Austrian art. Gradually Schiele evolved a somber style of his own-and he had few inhibitions about his subject matter. His pictures were roundly denounced as "the most disgusting things one has ever seen in Vienna." He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days-the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle. For years he wore hand-me-down suits...
...next was drawn under the influence of Austria's chief exponent of art nouveau, Gustav Klimt. But beneath the decorative quality which was art nouveau, one begins to see the real Schiele pushing through. As is typical in Schiele, a minimum of slightly wavy lines describe the body in an almost skeletal form. The head is tossed back and the mouth rounded into a long wail. Though it lacks the conviction of future self-portraits, the drawing predicts the increasingly tortured expression to be found in Schiele's work...