flommus:

Egon Schiele, Semi-Nude Girl, Reclining, 1911.

‘Egon Schiele insisted that the erotic is as heroic a subject as wars or religion. He combined high art and pornography in a manner only possible in radical Vienna of the pre-first world war years. But it still landed him in jail …’

—Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 2003

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