In Gemma
Blackshaws The Pathological Body: Modernist Strategizing in Egon
Schieles Self Portraiture she relates the stylistic qualities
of Schieles paintings to images found in medical journals that
were popular in Germany during the same time Schiele was creating
works of art. These journals and the image of his sick and dying
father could both be reasons to why Schieles stylistic change is
one that shows his figures as diseased and often frail (unlike his
own healthy body). Rather than try and find some inward reason to
why Schieles style shift in the early 1910s away from Klimts
style; Blackshaw looks for meaning elsewhere to why there is a
sudden shift in his artwork. She brings up this market also to be a
reason behind Schieles shift in style however the focus for the
frame of these images is more so a
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In relation to
this according to the Bible man is created in Gods image but what
Frankensteincould one conclude that the monster is created in
mans image and that man is inherently evil? Schieles critique of
himself with these self-portraits in relation to photographs of the
sick, the diseased, people with conditions that were not
understood. Could Schiele be trying to point at some inner
commonality that he believes he shares with these patients in his
illustrations? One of the two woman figure catalogued here Standing
Girl in a Blue Dress and Green Stockings, gives off this tone of
being one that could be in relation to this theory though the
figure is not really disfigured or grotesque the way she stands
trying to zip up a dress from behind her bent arm can both allude
to the state of the figures psyche. This is also seen in Crouching
Nude in Shoes and Black Stockings (Back View), as the female figure
is bent over in pain or discomfort her body is positioned in an
unrelaxed fashion which is relatable to the subjects of
these
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