I paint the light that comes from bodies. Radiant letters and poems from the Viennese painter's darkest torments.
Agone| N° d'inventaire | 20200 |
| Format | 11.5 x 17 |
| Détails | 96 p., 5 black and white sketches, bound. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2016 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782748902525 |
“Eternal child that I am. I have always followed the path of ardent people without wanting to be in them, I said – I spoke and did not speak, I listened and wanted to hear them much more loudly and to look into them. I sacrificed myself for others, those who made me feel sorry for them, those who were far away or who did not see me who saw. Soon some recognized the face of the one who sees within and then they no longer asked questions. This selection of texts, for the most part unpublished in French, reveals the trajectory of a painter as radical as he was impetuous, who never ceased to rise up against academicism and the petty bourgeois spirit. Through twenty-seven poems and twenty-one letters addressed to his close friends, Schiele defends an offensive and rebellious vision of art.
“Eternal child that I am. I have always followed the path of ardent people without wanting to be in them, I said – I spoke and did not speak, I listened and wanted to hear them much more loudly and to look into them. I sacrificed myself for others, those who made me feel sorry for them, those who were far away or who did not see me who saw. Soon some recognized the face of the one who sees within and then they no longer asked questions. This selection of texts, for the most part unpublished in French, reveals the trajectory of a painter as radical as he was impetuous, who never ceased to rise up against academicism and the petty bourgeois spirit. Through twenty-seven poems and twenty-one letters addressed to his close friends, Schiele defends an offensive and rebellious vision of art.