I say!

On Egon Schiele's oil painting "Man with a Twisted Body" (i really like his works)

- Inspired and influenced by Gustav Klimt
- The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism
- A study of his upper body
- The gaze is not just complicit but challenging. It dares the viewer to accept the posed and exposed subject
- Schiele’s intention is to make people appreciate blatant eroticism and honesty of female bodies
- Schiele explored space with the use of a single basic colour in many tones
- use of lighter tones to show a bigger area
- less positive apace
- clear black outlines that emphasise on the contours of the body
- twisted body
- this work is different in its representation of space (also comparing to Klimt) as Schiele used strokes of black lines (fragmentation) across his subject matter which represents movement. This adds detail to the positive space
- this self portrait highlighted the artist’s interest in the human body
- people think of his works as outstanding and disturbing
- he understood that just a body part can stand for a whole (his hands)

On Maurizo Savini's bubblegum sculpture, "The Hanging Man"

- made out of pink bubblegum
- Bubblegum is warmed and manipulated with a knife like clay
- a sculpture of a hanging man
- to the artist, bubblegum is an amazingly versatile material compared to those used by the traditional arts such as painting
- the artist worked around the theme of ‘impossibility’ and came up with the idea of a man defying the law of gravity
- to represent structure, the artist experimented with the form of the human body (the bent torso)
The artist experimented with space by hanging his life size sculpture, suspended in the air
- the sculpture is only supported at the side of its body
- the bent torso and suspended body gives an illusion that the bubblegum man is a complex structure amidst a large area of unoccupied space
- this sculpture is especially unique in it’s representation of structure because most human sculptures are portrayed either in an abstract manner or in a normal position (reclining, sitting)
- it is also very detailed in its line work
- this sculpture has stood out and made a strong impression to people about the use of uncommon materials to create artworks.
- most people are accustomed to materials such as bronze and gold
- lastly this sculpture represents the unending quest of mankind, which is to achieve what is deemed to be impossible