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"Monk by the sea", Caspar David Friedrich

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Land, sea, sky and a solitary monk mark the height of German Romanticism
25 - 06 - 2007

Monk by the Sea, (1809) Oil on canvas, 110 x 172 cm
Caspar David Friederich (b. 1774, Greifswald, d. 1840, Dresden)
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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daniel.jeffreys said:



Mon, 2007-06-25 20:48
This painting breaks down the sea and sky into two horizontal blocks, it really paves the way for abstraction and Mark Rothko's saturated rectangles. The figure is almost redundant- the state of transcendence is the artist's aim to be absorbed by the two great forces of sea and sky.
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