2011

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Underbed And Treadmill

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

Woman in the morning sun , 1818

Sometimes it takes little to want to pay more attention to an artist: a work that touches us more than others, a trait that makes biography echoes, a well done article on the work in question.

Today is reading the article Stéphane Guégan published in La Tribune de l'Art entitled " Caspar David Friedrich, the invention of romanticism " me makes you want to present here some of the works of German painter. Caspar David Friedrich

is indeed between two eras. Fully mastering the codes of classicism, it opens new horizons including giving nature that he painted a mysterious tone and comes into resonance with the (sometimes) characters in the painting. "The painter should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees in him," wrote the artist.

Some examples:

The monk at the seaside , 1808

The sea ice, or disappointed hopes , 1824

As written by Stéphane Guégan "The show sometimes becomes very subject of the picture and it happens and we see the characters at the door of a cemetery scrutinizing the sacred land, studded with tombstones. The look, the heart hugs or fear of desecration are duplicated endlessly. . "

Cloister Cemetery in the snow , 1819

Abbey in an oak forest , 1809

And finally this quote by the painter, which allows us to look otherwise the table (so famous that you forget sometimes to observe!)

"When a region is veil of fog, it appears taller, sublimated, it does raise the imagination and, like a veiled young woman, raises our expectations "