Self-portrait with hands on chest (Egon Schiele)

 

This self-portrait is called Hands on Chest (1910) by Egon Schiele. Schiele was an Australian painter, who was a protege of Gustav Klimt who was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. This was a self-portrait of himself made in 1910. The portrait is shown with watercolors with charcoal line-drawing. The artist's hair is spiked up and his hair color is an electric blue. His hands are folded at his chest, his long fingers reaching across his body. I chose this artwork because I thought the artist's expression was interesting and vacant. I also liked his colored hair, that's what I first noticed about this portrait.