Radnóti, Sándor (2018) Being and nothing Caspar David Friedrich: The Monk by the Sea. Acta Historiae Artium, 59 (1). pp. 219-231. ISSN 0001-5830 (print); 1588-2608 (online)
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Abstract
The Monk by the Sea stands alone in the oeuvre of Caspar David Friedrich. Unlike the majority of his works, which are generally overburdened with meaning, making them easy to understand from a Romantic, Christian or nationalist perspective, this painting remained resistant to interpretation by almost all of his contemporaries – even by the artist himself – because the reduction and “minimalism” in the work was so unprecedented and extreme that it would take several generations before it became common practice. This was also the first work to feature Friedrich’s famous innovation, the Rückenfigur, the picture’s internal spectator, who forms a close and subjective bond with the external spectator, while the subject of the spectacle itself, for the very first time in the history of painting, is “nothing”.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | MTA KFB támogatási szerződés alapján archiválva |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts / képzőművészet > NA Architecture / építészet |
| Depositing User: | Violetta Baliga |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2019 14:57 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Dec 2020 00:31 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/91506 |
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