Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century

He was a German Romantic landscape artist, and painter. He is known best for his mid-life allegorical landscapes which features figures silhouetted against skies, morning mists, barren trees and old gothic ruins. Friedrich usually looked at taking an image with the intentions of getting an emotional response, and to capture an image that will give off a feeling and emotion. His work takes human form or small objects and makes them look smaller in their scenery, he expands the landscape creating an extraordinary scene.

As you can see from this picture that Friedrich has taken, the image really strikes you with a sense of empty, space, to me the image is very strong and powerful the way that the trees are huge and silhouetted on the background with the faded wall of an old church. I have chosen Friedrich because his images are so strong and beautiful, to me they are so amazing, capture the sense of nothing, but there is something in the atmosphere.

There is a clear movement that has been kept through these artists and how they portray their photographs. The idea is capturing an image showing nature, how it breaks down and corrodes man made and also natural objects, capturing human and natural images and also giving the photo feeling and soul.

These photographs have both taken these key points and used them to give the photograph some feeling and thought, bringing in nature and displaying it in a fearful way, bringing out the light’s, colours, shadows to create maybe a beautiful but fearing image.

http://www.unique-canvas.com/caspar-david-friedrich/june-temple-in-agrient-artwork-2375

Images from

http://edmundsiderius.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/caspar-david-friedrich-the-vista-artist/