Friday 30 May 2008

Sea of Ice - Caspar David Friedrich, 1824

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Friedrich was the German master of nineteenth-century romantic painting, in his case mastery in depicting landscapes of emotional extremity.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Was this before all the ice melted during anthropogenic global warming?

~:)

Anonymous said...

Wow, that's just stunning. And yes, it does elicit an emotional response. That's what real art is all about, not the modern posey crap that only elicits disgust.

Anonymous said...

Awesome! is the man hidden intentionally?