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Walker cartoon : overhead in the Sea of Fog
16 x 11 inch -
Gua on paper
Cartoon by Martin Missfeldt - September 21, 2006
Tags: image,
oilpainting,
fun,
clouds,
arthistory,
romaticism,
man,
art,
picture,
humor,
Caspar David Friedrich,
cartoon,
The traveller over the nebulous sea - an allegory of a romantic painting. The great master of the romanticism, Caspar David Friedrich, has painted this picture in 1818. It shows a man with deep-blue trousers and coat on has an eye of a dark rock standing. This traveller (of life) has arrived in a point in which he does not get further any more. Now he looks round, but everything is veiled in the thick fog. Only a few mountain points tower above the nebulous sea. On the one hand a wonderful play of the nature, on the other hand an allegory for the often (emotionally) unvorhersehbarenen life.
The giraffe in this picture has probably studied under Beselitz. It has a look sache Headlong. Sensory empire in this connection of course also the antique, Julius Cäsar ascribed citation: "Veni, vidi, vici".
More helpful information with Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich