Know the Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
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@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Amazing! 🌙 ✨
I was exiled from a religious cult, and this painting has haunted and inspired me ever since my excommunication. This experience upturned every aspect of my inner life. It is fitting that this painting was used as the front cover for some versions of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ and the ideals of the Übermensch and the ‘Death of God.’ *Alone but not Lonely*
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Remarkable! Well said.
@theamazingfuzzlord
Жыл бұрын
exJw?
@zarahchristensen1147
Жыл бұрын
@@theamazingfuzzlord That’s what I was thinking too.. I know what that’s like
What an amazing artist! I was lucky enough to take an art history class in just 8th grade and even back then I remember how much these paintings moved me. It's almost difficult to watch this video because of how overwhelming these paintings can be for me. Still, I made it to the end and glad I did. Thank you so much!
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!! They're deeply contemplative and you're right, many of them are almost overwhelming. He was a remarkable artist. Thank you for watching!
@lisanalgaib555
Жыл бұрын
I felt the same when I saw the paintings in the Charlottenburger Schloss in Berlin on a vacation. They trigger deep emotions of longing, yearning and nostalgia. The same as watching a colorful sunset. The desire to see and find out what is behind the horizon.
I just recently looked more into his works and I feel like his paintings are what computer game artists want to create with their environments. The grandiosity, feeling small in an environment that is ever changing and can never be fully understood are two elements that make his work so mysterious and captivating. Once you look at one of his paintings it feels like sinking into them. For these aspects specifically I feel like he would be the ideal study for game artists and it definatly makes him a great inspiration for me.
👁️✨👁️ aloha from northern CA. My first glimpse of Mountain Landscape 1822-1823 caught my breath It's the creeks here after a heavy rain savages a drought weakened pine omg the sadness .. Dreamer caught my heart
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
It's a powerful image!
I’ve been missing this!
caspar is one of my absolute favorites not only am i from germany i lived in dresden a while and hiked the elbsandsteingebirge where he drew inspiration from. My love for his art goes so far that he is almost always the background of my desktops and i got the wanderer above the mist tattood on me. He is just a completly one of a kind artist with such humling and deeply resonating messages. Wonderful Video as always. Thank you.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Amazing! Well said, his work is humbling. Thank you for watching!
JIMMY HAS RETURNED!
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Return of the JimJam!
received the print of this painting (wanderer above the sea of fog) just some hour ago. what a coincidence. btw it was me that suggested you to make a video on Caspar David Friedrich.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Amazing! We hope you enjoy it :)
@ChristianSt97
Жыл бұрын
@@TheArtTourist yes and thank you for the video!
It's always a wonderful surprise when I receive a notification for a new episode of Several Circles. Thank you!
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Yay! Thank you for watching!
The cat🥰😍
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Jimmy loves his camera time!
This channel is an absolute blessing. Thank you for your hard work.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! That means a lot to us ✨
Excellent writing as usual.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
Gorgeous paintings and very well put together video
Yes! He's one of my favourite artists, thanks so much for the video! 😊
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
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Love this artist. Thank you for bringing his story. I was not familiar.
YAY !!!
I'd only known of this specific artwork from the often big house published paperback edition, "Thus Spake (Spoke) Zarathustra" by Nietszche! Now we can learn its individual origins, of the artist, and their historic and artistic milieu beyond the usual tie-ins to sometimes historically unrelated works of philosophy, literature, esoterica. Thank you for this critical learning of oft-overlooked art in themselves and their artists!
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Yes! I think that’s one of the more significant references for his work. Thank you for watching!
Love the Sublime, another great choice would be the epic paintings of John Martin.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Yes great suggestion! We put a wild Martin painting in our Thomas Cole documentary and I've been obsessed ever since!
I was pleased to see you read my suggestion. The episodes where Rachael introduces herself seem more professional. She is a stunning narrator.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
It was an awesome suggestion. Thank you so much! ✨
Beautiful! Friedrich is one of my favourite artists. This was a joy to watch
Çok değerlisiniz. Teşekkürler ve başarılar.
Same as other videos, loved this one!! Thanks for the inspiration :)
Another great video. Thank you so much
The best! Love these
The works of Caspar David Friedrich have been a great inspiration of mine this year and one of the main reasons for me to move to the seaside in a few weeks and settle there :)
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
How fantastic! 🌊
Brilliant, thanks.
thanks for the spotlight!
I love your channel so much. Thanks for these. :)
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jared!
This channel pairs well with wine.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
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I would love a video on Maria Helena Viera da Silva.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Will add her to the list!
@inesdelgado6996
Жыл бұрын
Great suggestion. :)
I adore this channel, thank you for all your content, it is so well-made. May I request a Bernini video? Haha, I am currenting crushing on his work!
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Jessina! Bernini would be wonderful for a Follow the Artist episode set in Rome. One day soon hopefully 🤞 ✨
Awesome video!
Amazing video as always! I wouldn’t mind hearing your thoughts on Gustave Doré. He’s probably my favorite artist
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
We adore Doré! We’ll make a short about him asap
Awesome channel.
I love your cat!!!
Just watched the new “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Definitely felt like the photography has some strong references to some of Friedrich’s foggy landscapes. Particularly around the second little foray to the farmhouse. Anybody get that feeling?
Friedrich is one of my favourite painters, along with El Greco, Vassily Kandinsky and Georgia O’Keeffe. Abbey in the Oakwood is my personal favourite of his, though there really isn’t a “bad painting” of his =] I had made a musical piece in tribute to him under the name The Condition.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
You have excellent taste!
You should definitely make videos of more underrated painters as well. Such as Greek painter Nikiforos Lytras the most prominent artist of our culture. Or Surrealist Greek painter Nikos Eggonopoulos. Or Sofia Laskaridou who graduated from the French school of Arts, returned to Greece and asked the King himself to include women graduating in the art school of Athens opening the doors for more women to participate in art.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
All great suggestions, thank you!
Francois Boucher!
1:13 Dick Mountains, by Caspar David Friedrich.
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
😂 I was waiting for this comment tbh
@VelvetMetrolink
Жыл бұрын
@@TheArtTourist Delighted to oblige.
What a great video! May I ask what music you use for the background?
@TheArtTourist
9 ай бұрын
It’s original music we made for the channel.
@silverbackbison5376
9 ай бұрын
That's awesome! It is a perfect companion to the video.
@TheArtTourist
9 ай бұрын
Thanks!
Kanye's new album art sent me here 🔥
@TheArtTourist
7 ай бұрын
Landscape with Graves! Wow! 🪦
I'd like to know more about the artist Kate Baylay, she's an illustrator publicized briefly in 2018 but hasn't been active since then it seems. Her style is reminiscent of Audrey Beardsley, Egon Shiele and Gustav Klimt albeit gothic/decadent.
I just squatted 455 lbs ass to grass listening to this, love The Cross in the Mountains btw 🥰
@TheArtTourist
Жыл бұрын
Impressive!
Until 2015 I worked as a guide and art historian in the museum which owns the "Wanderer above the sea of fog". I saw the painting every day and it never lost his magic.