Much of Cudahy's work reminds me of Egon Schiele, Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist has produced.  The twisted body shape's and expressive line that characterises Schiele's paintings and drawings marks the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism, although strongly associated with the art noveau movement.


Schiele exhibited his work in Vienna Kunstschau in 1909 where he became familiar to artists such as Edvard Munch, Van Gogh and Jan Toorop, once free of constraints, Schiele not only began to explore the human form but also human sexuality, at the time many people found the explicitness of his works disturbing.


Some of Schiele's work as being grotesque, erotic, pornographic or disturbing, focussing on sex, death and discovery. He focussed on portraits of others aswell as himself.  In later years while he still worked with nudes, they were drawn in a more realistic fashion.