The Sea of Ice - Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich likes to paint nature in all its magnificence, but this painting emphasizes its dangerous and implacable side. This sea of raging ice, cut into imposing sharp and protruding blocks, demonstrates a fierce and inflexible power. The eye lingers on the beauty of the colors and on the details, finely enhanced by touches of light, almost forgetting this unlucky ship, whose sinking has created this sumptuous tumult. Friedrich is passionate about the epic depiction of landscapes, which we also see in The wanderer above the Sea of fog and The Watzmann.
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Caspar David Friedrich likes to paint nature in all its magnificence, but this painting emphasizes its dangerous and implacable side. This sea of raging ice, cut into imposing sharp and protruding blocks, demonstrates a fierce and inflexible power. The eye lingers on the beauty of the colors and on the details, finely enhanced by touches of light, almost forgetting this unlucky ship, whose sinking has created this sumptuous tumult. Friedrich is passionate about the epic depiction of landscapes, which we also see in The wanderer above the Sea of fog and The Watzmann.
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