Egon Schieles Self-Portrait Essay -- Visual Arts Paintings Art

Egon Schieles Self-PortraitWhen I look at this portrait, the first thing that hits me is the waythe artist, Egon Schiele, appears to have do himself look animated,like a car aliken. The way in which his right shopping mall is rounded like acartoon character and his left field snapper is squinting and almost shut, addsto the idea of a the portrait being a cartoon. The squinted left eyeis as if he is sneaking around and evaluating his surroundings. If you subvent the right side of the face (with the widely opened eye), itmakes you realise that the left side with the squinted eye does notlook very lifelike, but the 2 eyes seem to cancel each other out.The over blown-up wrinkles on Schieles face and neck make him looka lot ancienter than he actually is. He was actually that 20 years oldwhen he painted this portrait but the way in which he was exaggeratedthe wrinkles makes him look around 40 years old. Schiele may have donethis to portray his feelings at the snip he painted it he may havefelt old and tired. But Schiele may also have been just experimentingin antithetical ways of painting facial features and expressions.If you look at Schieles transfer in the portrait, it looks as thoughSchiele has deliberately elongated the fingers and made them see-throughand much withered. This again, makes you think that Schiele hasdeliberately made himself look older and more animated. The clothesthat Schele is wearing in the portrait look to be too big and baggyfor him, and therefore seem also to ...