Initial research into two artists from the past including a short biography, their influences, quotes, analysis of their works as well as a short comparison.

1. Connections
Egon Schiele & Eduardo Paolozzi

2. Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele born 12 June 1890 and died 31 October 1918 was an
Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. A protégé of Gustav Klimt,
Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work
is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits
the artist produced, including naked self-portraits.
As a child, he attended the school run by the Stift Klosterneuburg, where
his arts teacher K.L. Strauch recognized and supported Schiele's artistic
talent. In 1906 Schiele applied at Kunstgewerbeschule (Arts and Crafts
School) in Vienna where Gustav Klimt had once studied.
Gustav Klimt, who took particular interest in Schiele due to his talent,
buying his drawings and offering to exchange them for some of his own.
Schiele was ordered to report for active service in the army.
He was treated well by others who respected his artistic talent and was
able to carry on drawing even in the base.
In 1918, the Spanish flu epidemic that killed more than 20,000,000 lives
reached Vienna. Schiele dies when he was 28 years old, three days after
his wife. During the three days between their deaths, Schiele drew a few
sketches of Edith; these were his last works.

3. These are examples of his Self-Portraits:

4. Egon Schiele’s Influences:
Egon Schiele was inspired by Gustav Klimt when he started developing his own style of working
when he was young, around 15 years old. Klimt tutored Schiele due to his distinct passion and
talent for drawing. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent
members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals and sketches.
The erotic side of Klimt’s work is evident in Egon’s through the use of drawing naked human
figures.

5. Quotes:
‘To restrict the artist is a crime. It Is to murder germinating life.’
‘I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolours of an erotic
nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have
done erotic pictures?’
‘I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water
and see cracking trees and wild winds.
‘Art cannot be modern, it is timeless.’

6. My Analysis:
• Self-Portrait : interesting composition in the way that the position of the body
is unusual. His body is leaning backwards, this could indicate that he is in
shame (shown by the position of the hand which he could be using to hide his
face) or a position in which he could exaggerate his style of drawing in.
• The lines Egon Schiele uses are interesting due to the juxtaposed form of the
body created by contrasting sharp/straight lines with curved lines – for
example your knee caps aren’t square, neither are your shoulders. Shiele
might have used these lines to highlight his skinny frame which he might not
have been confident with.
• The colours used gives the painting a surrealist feel due tot the fact that he
has not used colours which would normally be used to paint the human body
– for example he has painted one leg pink, his stomach green, his hair purple,
his arm orange and his face a mix. The use of green on his stomach and pink
on his leg create a complimentary blend. The two colours are opposite on the
colour wheel and work well together creating an aesthetic feel to the painting
which drawn in your attention.
• The composition of the painting as a whole is interesting as it is mostly
assigned to the left, leaving blank space to the right as well as around his
body which shows the fact that Schiele did not want to draw attention away
from the painting itself - he wanted it solely focused on the form of this
body. The space around the body makes the piece easier to comprehend as
you are instantly drawn to the main attraction.

7. Eduardo Paolozzi
British sculptor, collagist, printmaker, filmmaker and writer.
Paolozzi was born on 7 March 1924, in Leith in north Edinburgh,
Scotland, and was the eldest son of Italian immigrants. In June
1940, when Italy declared war on Britain, Paolozzi was interned.
He attended Edinburgh College of Art in 1943 with a view to
becoming a commercial artist. After brief military service, in 1944
he attended St Martin's School of Art in London, and from 1945
to 1947 he studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Paolozzi taught textile design at the Central School of Art and
Design in London from 1949 to 1955 and changed to the St.
Martin's School of Art in 1955. He went to Hamburg for two years
to teach at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in 1960 and
between 1977 and 1981 he held a chair at the Fachhochschule in
Cologne. In 1981 he switched to the Akademie der Bildenden
Künste in Munich, where he taught until his retirement in 1994.
Eduardo Paolozzi died in London in April 2005. Among Paolozzi's
best known works are his works for public places like the design
of the tube station Tottenham Court Road in London with
coloured mosaics, the realisation of the Rheingarten project in
Cologne or the cast iron sculpture 'Piscator' for the Euston Square
in London.

8. Eduardo Paolozzi’s Influences:
Paolozzi was inspired by Surrealism when he started making sculptures in the 1940s. Surrealism - a cultural
movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to
"resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality".
: In the late 1940s, Paolozzi spent time in Paris, France, shadowing such surrealist artists as Jean Dubuffet and
Alberto Giacometti. During this time, Paolozzi started making sculptures and collages that uniquely combined the
influences of surrealism with elements of popular culture and contemporary machinery. A collection ofPaolozzi's
collages, comprised of clippings he pulled from magazines American soldiers had given him in Paris, were later
displayed in a slideshow at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1952. To many, the slideshow designated Paolozzi
as the "inventor of Pop Art."
Jean Dubeffet: Alberto Giacometti:

9. Quotes:
‘I suppose I am interested, above all, in investigating the golden ability of the
artist to achieve a metamorphosis of quite ordinary things into something
wonderful and extraordinary.’
‘But I have an African or Indian approach to what I find. I like to make use of
everything. I can’t bear to throw things away – a nice wine bottle, a nice box.
Sometimes I feel like a wizard in Toytown, transforming a bunch of carrots
into pomegranates.’
‘Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the
fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor – scientific phenomena become significant
images.’

10. My Analysis:
• To the left is an example of Eduardo Paolozzi’s work. He was known for his abstract, colourful and filled pieces of artwork. The lines used
in this piece are every bold and solid, most of the objects in the painting are outlined with a black line. These lines make the design much
more noticeable due to the attention drawn to the lines which create an effect of solidity. There are a combination of curved and solid
lines within the patterns and small illustrations in which he has painted. The use of this contrast makes each and every object unique in
the way that the different types of lines are used to create different shapes and patterns.
• Shapes are very important within this piece as they create the separate images which have been put together to create a full piece of
work. Squares, Rectangles and circles are the most used shapes in this piece, for example rectangles and circles have been used to create
a repeated pattern in the left bottom corner as well as many small rectangles in the form of a kite shape. If there were no known shapes,
this piece of art would be hard to understand.
• The composition within this piece is very full and complete in the way that
there are no spaces where there is no design. The painting is full of small
designs which have come together to create a full painting. As a viewer I think
you could become claustrophobic or over whelmed by this painting due to its
complicated nature.
• The colour choices are quite hard to analyse as there are so many different
examples of shades for example blue, yellow and green. The light sky blue
colour background in my opinion is a good colour choice as it is not over-
whelming under all the illustrations in the foreground. The washed out blue
makes it easy to concentrate on other aspects of the painting, rather than a
heavy dark colour which would not work well. The border of the painting
creates a finished/complete effect.

11. Comparison: Schiele vs Paolozzi
• Egon Schiele’s work is much more simple in comparison to Paolozzi’s due to his complicated and full
style. The composition of his art is much more complete and packed, on the other hand Schiele’s pieces
are much more calm and spacious which makes them easier to comprehend.
• The colours in some of Egon Schiele’s work is similar to Eduardo Paolozzi due to his wide color palette
which is visible in some of Schiele’s for example the naked self portrait I analysed which had a surrealist
feel as unusual colours had been used to paint the human body.
• There is a use of sharp, straight lines and curvy lines in both artists work for different purposes. Straight
lines have been used in Schiele’s work to highlight his skinny frame for example he has made his knee
caps and shoulders square which is common in his style of art/drawing. Schiele also uses curvy lines to
accentuate parts of the body, as in some of his drawings of women, he accentuates their hips with a
curved line as well as using curved lines for hair to show texture as well as shape.
• Shapes are visible in both artists work: in Schiele’s drawings, he used geometrical shapes such as squares
(knees) and circles (upper body/torso). These shapes show that Schiele has thought about how he would
lik the painting to look like when complete. In some of Schiele’s working you can also see evidence of
working out drawings before painting it due to the shapes which seep through the watercolours for
example circles at his joints. He could have used these rough drawings to make sure the proportions are
correct. Paolozzi uses many shapes in his work which are well known. Circles, rectangles, squares and
triangles are all apparent in his work to create patterns. If these shapes weren't well known, Paolozzi’s
work would be hard to understand.