Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Romanticism of showing art

Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818), Caspar David Friedrich

"Romanticism in art, as in literature, followed the pendulum swing away from the optimistic Enlightenment idea of human dominion over nature and the credo that Reason would ultimately reign supreme." (http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/philolog/2006/04/goya_friedrich_and_romanticism_1.html)
Romanticism better the vast wildernesses of an ordinary and changeable nature with its unlimited forests, high clouds and loud waterfalls from icy giant peaks.

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