CASPER DAVID FREIDRICH
I have had a look at the Artist Casper David Freidrich 1774-1840, a german painter from the romantic period. The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and terror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, and argued for a “natural” epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language and customary usage. What I like about his work apart from the mist, the mood and the melancholy, is the symmetry.
