ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: J. M. W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape Painting
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Tiny monk makes you realize how small you are in the world. The sublime is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling . Friedrich, wanderer above the sea of mists, 1818. Vertical picture, different from monk because the other was showing the landscape. Man appears to be from high class, city. Lines that come in from the side to draw the viewer to the man. Snowstorm, hannibal and his army crossing the alps. Helpless people on the bottom right corner. Highly critiqued in the time, said it looked like it was painted by a mop. The slave ship (slavers throwing overboard the dead and dying, typhoon coming. Pointing to corrupt practices, allowing people to die instead of saving them. Slavers worried about insurance compensation when one got missing. The fighting temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up. Battleship is being towed by small steam powered ship.
