“The Paradox Of Nature”
“The Paradox of Nature”
A painter whose best-known influence was that of the Romantic Movement, Caspar David Friedrich was well versed in many forms of art. While he had a formal art education, he did not begin his oil paintings until after the age of thirty. Two of his more famous works, he painted in 1818, The Wanderer above the Sea of Mist, and Chalk Cliffs on Rugen. Both of these paintings are typical of Friedrich in that they are composed of characters viewing nature from within nature. These characters are in a mode of reflection; they are distanced from their regular lives, which are full of finite, tangible, objects, and instead are immersed in a realm of intangible infinity, experiencing the overwhelming excess of nature in full force. These characters experience first hand the paradox of the massive force of nature, and the finitude of human life. The viewer simultaneously must realize the limits of their own perspective when looking at either of these paintings,......
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