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liquidnight: Caspar David Friedrich - Kreidefelsen auf Rügen [Chalk Cliffs on Rügen], 1819 [via crashinglybeautiful:sealmaiden] Friedrich was the kind of painter the English Romantic poets respected.  There is a romantic sensibility to his paintings and the landscape means something of itself.  It becomes kind of Immanuel Kant-ish:  Nature is a being onto itself.  There is a world beyond that we can’t access.  Now Romanticism comes into play:  Nature begins to suggest that ideal of ‘the devine’, or ‘sublime’ which evades the viewer’s grasps.  see: Wordsworth, Shelley.  

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Caspar David Friedrich - Kreidefelsen auf Rügen [Chalk Cliffs on Rügen], 1819

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Friedrich was the kind of painter the English Romantic poets respected.  There is a romantic sensibility to his paintings and the landscape means something of itself.  It becomes kind of Immanuel Kant-ish:  Nature is a being onto itself.  There is a world beyond that we can’t access.  Now Romanticism comes into play:  Nature begins to suggest that ideal of ‘the devine’, or ‘sublime’ which evades the viewer’s grasps.  see: Wordsworth, Shelley.  

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