There's a slump to this purple figure that owes something to Schiele's anxious contours - the head heavy, the whole body arrested mid-collapse against a flat horizontal plane. What keeps it from tipping into pure homage is the detail: a scratched eyebrow, a shallow smirk, fingers trailing off the edge of the table as though the exhaustion were, after all, a little bit performed.
There's a slump to this purple figure that owes something to Schiele's anxious contours - the head heavy, the whole body arrested mid-collapse against a flat horizontal plane. What keeps it from tipping into pure homage is the detail: a scratched eyebrow, a shallow smirk, fingers trailing off the edge of the table as though the exhaustion were, after all, a little bit performed.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery