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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [a] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [2] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.
[14] Unlike Whistler's Impressionistic night scenes, Grimshaw worked in a realistic vein: "sharply focused, almost photographic", his pictures innovated in applying the tradition of rural moonlight images to the Victorian city, recording "the rain and mist, the puddles and smoky fog of late Victorian industrial England with great poetry." [15]
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Sea beach in the fog [Wikidata] 1807 Oil on canvas 34.5 x 52 cm Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum: Cross in the Mountains: 1808 Oil on canvas 115 x 110 cm Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago [3] Portrait of an older man [Wikidata] 1808 to 1810 Oil on canvas 51.7 x 42.4 cm Hanover: Lower Saxony State Museum: Morning mist in the Mountains [Wikidata ...
[40]: 112 Unlike Whistler's Impressionistic night scenes Grimshaw worked in a realistic vein: "sharply focused, almost photographic," his pictures innovated in applying the tradition of rural moonlight images to the Victorian city, recording "the rain and mist, the puddles and smoky fog of late Victorian industrial England with great poetry."
His observations culminated in a painting that depicts the sun rising over the mountains at dawn with a few notable figures and symbols. Image of the Riesengebirge Mountains. In the painting, a woman helps a man go up the mountain, and they are advancing towards a man crucified on a cross, presumably Jesus Christ. According to Werner Hoffman ...
The Golden Horn. Mist: 449 More images: La Corne d'or. La Suleimanie: 1907 Constantinople The Golden Horn. The Suleimania: 450 More images: La Corne d'or. Sainte-Sophie: 1907 Constantinople The Golden Horn. The Sainte-Sophie: 451 More images: La Corne d'or. Les caïques: 1907 Constantinople The Golden Horn. The Caiques: Museum of Art in Łódź ...
This visionary painting depicts the morning mist turning into fairies, like the spirits of untamed nature. Fairies were seen as delicate, tender, sensitive but also capricious and inclined to have their feelings hurt easily and take offence if not treated well.