He is truly in the presence of greatness, and as we look at him as he looks out over the landscape and maybe even thinks about his life and the natural world. It shows a man confronting the vastness of nature and ultimately God. And this was what Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” captures. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism, paganism, idealization of nature, distrust of science and industrialization. The Romantic movement was a European intellectual, artistic, literary, and musical movement that began toward the end of the 18th century. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is considered a masterpiece of the Romantic movement which is a broad artistic and literary movement that emerged after the Age of Enlightenment. This hints at Friedrich’s interest in politics in the early 19th century and suggests that he was a German Nationalist. Whereas, some historians claim that the man could be Colonel Friedrich Gotthard von Brincken and that this painting was made as a kind of “patriotic epitaph” for him after he died. Based on Caspar David Friedrich’s red hair colour, some art history sources suggest that the figure in this painting was the artist himself. It’s possible that Friedrich’s work, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, which he created the year he got married, is about his struggle to control his strong emotions for the sake of his young bride. Friedrich’s statement, “The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself,” demonstrates the connection between inspiration and trauma. He always wore a beard to cover the wound from his attempt to cut himself. It is said that this incident stayed with Friedrich for life and due to his depression, he attempted suicide in Dresden. Caspar fell, and his brother saved his life. When he was young, he and his brother were skating on the frozen Baltic Sea when the ice cracked. His personal history may also account for the ominous tension between beauty and terror in his depiction of nature, which was influenced by the landscapes of his native Germany. Why did Friedrich paint the Wanderer above the sea of fog?įriedrich’s paintings are dominated by the sublime power of nature. Caspar David Friedrich often depicted his figures in this manner, which he referred to as a “compositional strategy/device.” The man stands with his back to the audience and the German word for “figure from the back” is Rückenfigur, which refers to this unique method. As a result, it may not accurately depict the mountain ranges and their locations. Friedrich sketched them out in the field, but he rearranged them in the same way he usually does in the studio for the painting. The painting is made up of various elements from the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in Saxony and Bohemia. The wanderer is looking out over a landscape that is covered in a thick sea of fog, his hair blowing in the wind. He is wearing a dark green overcoat and holding a walking stick in his right hand. A man stands with his back to the viewer on a rocky precipice in the foreground. What attracts viewers is the visual appeal of the painting. 3 India’s prestigious theatre event META looks ahead at post-pandemic storytelling.2 Kerala village known for Kathakali renamed after the dance form. ![]() 1 Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik spreads the message of Earth Hour using his sustainable sand art.
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