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 Continue Reading...
All of the styles inspired by the Romantic current can be clearly traced from the Formalist point-of-view, as they had in common the use of image itself, leaving meaning and content to a secondary design.
In the poetry and literature world, the Ro Continue Reading...
Nostalgia for the Past
Nostalgia can take many forms, but can perhaps be summarized by the phrase 'appropriating selected aspects of the past for the use of the present'. It tends to involve an emotional or spiritual response to the past rather than Continue Reading...
Progress
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Origin of Inequality
There are apparent relations that exist between human beings and nature and also among themselves. In these relations also exists differences especially among human beings which attract a Continue Reading...
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, e Continue Reading...