The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
As of today, “Feel Art Again” has been a regular feature on mental_floss for 52 full weeks, having made its debut on September 26, 2007, with Caspar David Friedrich’s “Two Men Contemplating the Moon.” To celebrate this momentous occasion, today’s post is a journey through time, “Feel Art Again” style. Every artist in the past [...]
Dewey's Treehouse (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
This year the composers for Ambleside Online are Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, and half a term each of Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner. The artists are Botticelli, Caspar David Friedrich, and Vincent Van Gogh. Our composers are Mark O’Connor, Igor Stravinsky, Franz Liszt, and Antonin Dvořák. Our artists are Paul Kane, Cornelius Krieghoff, William Kurelek (the “3 K’s” of Canadian art); Caspar...
Not PC (Free subscription) | 29/05/2008
Friedrich was the German master of nineteenth-century romantic painting, in his case mastery in depicting landscapes of emotional extremity.
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Dutch artist Guido van der Werve makes the kind of films Caspar David Friedrich might have dreamt up if he had had a sense of humour and access to a camera. Saturated in an atmosphere of melancholy, loss and loneliness,...
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 27/02/2008
August Schreitmueller’s sandstone sculpture after the bombing of Dresden, offering some consolation in a desert of destruction. Der Abend (1820) by Caspar David Friedrich Connecting vocabulary: crépuscule, twilight, the blue hour.
Art History Newsletter (Free subscription) | 14/01/2008
The Austrian art historian and longtime director of the Hamburg Kunsthalle has published on Caspar David Friedrich, Francisco de Goya and Edgar Degas, among other artists. Marion Lauschke and Isabella Woldt also won awards. More here (rough English translation).
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/11/2007
‘Feel Art Again’ debuted in September and quickly became a reader favorite. Today let's take a deep breath and recap every masterpiece the wonderful Andréa Fernandes has featured. • Caspar David Friedrich’s “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” • Jean-Honoré Fragonard's “The Love Letter” and “Love Letters” • Albrecht Dürer’s “Self-Portrait at 26″ • Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” • Pablo [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
Visual Arts Aidan DunneThe central piece in Gary Coyle's South Side Gothic at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery is a portentous reworking of Caspar David Friedrich's iconic masterpiece of Romanticism, The Wanderer Above the Mists, in which a well-dressed rambler gazes across an expansive landscape of mountain peaks protruding above rolling mist. It's an image that has been pressed into service in numerous...
