¶ … Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" by Caspar David Friedrich, a paining I believe embodies both Romanticism and reality on the same canvas. Romanticism was the result of several major events that took place in the background, from a political, social, economic, and cultural point-of-view. It was therefore only natural that the artistic world would be influenced by these developments.
Caspar David Friedrich is one of the most important painters of the Romantic period largely because he managed to include the realities of his time into a Romantic trend that encompassed artistic and human values alike. In order to better understand the complexity of his work, it is important to point out the background of the era and its implications for the painter. In this sense, perhaps one of the essential aspects of the time, especially in Germany, was the industrial revolution that took place at the end of the 18th...
The Industrial revolution is not merely an economic development of Europe in particular, and through the colonial system, of the world in general, but also a human and social development.
The industrial revolution ensured new means of manufacturing and evolution of the industry to an extent that it allowed the economies to develop in a mechanized manner. The production times were being reduced, the demand was increasing, and the offer was being diversified (Berstein and Milza,1994) . However, this development was possible as a result of the introduction of machineries and replacement of the human labor force. Despite the fact that this was not necessarily a negative aspect on the road to development, the role of the people in the production chain was reduced to hard labors to support the machineries set in place and therefore, the human…
Medium Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich is an oil-on-canvas Romantic Movement representation of a young man metaphorically rising above the uncertainty of the world around him and transcending to a height that puts if not clarity on all things at least some perspective for the imagination. The painting literally depicts a young wanderer or hiker in the center of the frame, back to the
Bront plays with foreshadowing with this scene because Blanche Ingram will soon enter the story. Another powerful scene that connects weather and Jane's emotional state occurs when Jane realizes that Rochester is already married. She writes from a forlorn state of mind: Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent expectant woman-almost a bride-was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate. A Christmas frost had come at
" The point made by the poet is similar to the poem above. The reference to John, The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not yet appear; is a reference to the Book of Revelations, at the end of the Bible. That despite the promises of an Eternal life for those who eschew sin, we are still frail and have the faults of people. We are still besought by sin