There is something so pleasing about the women in Klimt’s paintings. The turned faces, rosy cheeks, innocent gestures, and the twisted, erotic fashion of the human forms.

Mother and Child. Gustav Klimt

The Girlfriends. Gustav Klimt

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

- Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

the irresolute character of the figures, conceived as bowed and bent, the bodies of men tired of life, suicides, yet still the bodies of people alert to sensation

- Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

A handful of my favorite works by Schiele.

Photorealism at it’s best.

I am interested in how things look; I am also interested in painting that is based upon how things look. I like to see things the way they are rather than thinking how they can be changed. The richness and range of the visual world constantly thrills and amazes me. I am most particularly interested in using the part of our world which we seem to notice least…that is, our everyday surroundings as we live day to day. Thus, I have painted friends and family, familiar houses, streets and neighborhoods. The paintings are on one level, about middle class American life as experienced in California. On another, they are about reconciling that subject matter with concerns about formal painting issues (the use of color and light, design, and the kinds of marks one must make to replicate appearances). They are, in that sense, a part of a long tradition of European and American painting which has sought to find significance in the details of the commonplace. 
 - Robert Bechtle, 1990, OK Harris

Sunset Garage, 1994. Robert Bechtle

Covered Car - Near Otis Drive, 2003. Robert Bechtle

While I do find his paintings and drawings of the ‘everyday’ objects beautiful, there is a quality to his self-portraits that is unforgettable. They are poignant yet somehow ephemeral.

Westport Garage, 1996. Robert Bechtle

Portero Night, 2005. Robert Bechtle

Potrero Table, 1994. Robert Bechtle

North Adams Studio III, 2005. Robert Bechtle