How does this artwork elucidate its Composition and description?
Schiele's 1917 Seated Woman piece portrays a young female figure, modeled after Edith. Depicted as sitting on the ground, the figure assumes an informal and provocative pose. Although in a relaxed pose and at ease, Schiele's model has also been conversely described as "charged with a nervous energy", and the piece has been described as having an "aggressiveness". The figure rests her head on her knee, which is raised and bent, while her other leg falls open to the side. She has carmine-red lips and sports messy, fiery orange-red hair that contrasts with the deep green of her top, and her petticoat is hitched up. She also wears underwear and black stockings. Stockings would not be an uncommon fetishistic attribute found in Schiele's work. She also makes a direct and suggestive eye contact with viewers of the work.Seated Woman employed a gouache, watercolor, and black crayon technique on paper. The subject's hair, skin, and clothing have a mottled appearance due to Schiele's long, visible, and apparently rapidly applied brushstrokes. Schiele's incorporation of "an expressive tonality and the visible strokes done with gouache" help complete the visual presence of Seated Woman. The expressiveness of the piece's lines and marks were achieved by Schiele's application of "fairly dry, scumbled paint" and usage of "stiff brushes and different amounts of water in each area". The figure's hair, for example, was painted with a more fluid paint than her stockings. Sharp angles are also present in the piece.The background completely forms an empty, or negative space around the subject. This was typical for the subjects in Schiele's art, which were often found "suspended in a void, with no background to indicate depth beyond the edges of the figure itself". Meanwhile, the palette is limited to cream, white, black, green, red, and orange.
mottle negative space scumbled gouache