![]() ![]() Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, painted by John Constable. The story goes he had himself get tied up to the mast of a ship during a storm, to experience the force of nature himself.ģ. Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, painted by William Turner.Įmotion and experience are the most important in Turner's work. Friedrich wanted more than to paint nature, he wanted to capture the essence of it.Ģ. The light, vague, unreachable background, contrasted by the dark, silent, overwhelmed man in front of it. The man is put in front of the landscape itself. Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (Walker above the sea of clouds), painted by Caspar David Friedrich. I used three different paintings that, if you ask me, are as different as painting from the same movement could possibly be.ġ. Reading about something is one thing, looking up actual paintings from this era another thing. Keep in mind, I executed most of these preparatory steps with the idea of the painting already in my head )įirst of all: examples. Step 7- 14 will tell you how to make a painting like this yourself. In step 1-6, I'll show the preparatory steps I took before starting this painting. For this painting, basically the only instructions was a romantic landscape. I started with a medieval version of a van Gogh, made a Vanitas still life for the seventeenth century and ended here. The past school year, I've made several paintings based on time periods we learned about. If he doesn't see anything inside himself, he should stop painting what he has in front of him" (translated from German) As Caspar David Friedrich said : "The painter should not only paint what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. ![]() To escape from this sad, daily existence, artists are inspired by the past, by different cultures, exotic places, by nature and by their own views and feelings. Cities are growing, the working class lives in poverty and the workers are just part of an anonymous extension of the machines. It's the time of the industrial revolution, the start of a world filled with factories. At the end of the eighteenth century, romanticism as a cultural movement finds its way. ![]()
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