From the Sketchbooks of the Great Artists
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"series of self-portraits of a kind never seen before. Whether the figure is clothed or nude, Schiele always presents the face as racked by distressing emotions, and the asymmetrical design heightens the sense of disturbance. A small drawing of himself in a sketchbook (Plate 259) is less extreme, but the startled grimace is frozen into a mask-like rigidity, and the hair seems to stand on end. When the young Rembrandt pulled faces at himself in the mirror, it was to increase ..." --From the Sketchbooks of the Great Artists, Claude Marks |
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From the Sketchbooks of the Great Artists (1972) is a book by Claude Marks.
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