Monk by the Sea

When talking about Romantic arts, most people would think of dynamic movements and colorful values being used in a painting. However, to Caspar Friedrich a German Romantic artist a Romantic piece of art doesn't have to be colorful or have a lot of emotions. One of his famous piece Monk by the Sea painted in 1809 was just showing a picture of a monk staring at the sea.
This represents the movement of Romantic Landscape.If an individual stare at this piece for the first time, it doesn't have anything special to it. However, the eerie color and the foggy atmosphere gives people the feeling of sadness and perhaps lonely. There are people today who are really scare of ghosts, monsters or blood, but once a while they'd still like to watch a scary movie. Similarily, people back then were used to look at exotic and colorful paintings, but if they look at this piece by Friedrich they'd still able to have the feeling of lonely through the colors and the foggy atmosphere painted in this painting.

Monk by the Sea

When talking about Romantic arts, most people would think of dynamic movements and colorful values being used in a painting. However, to Caspar Friedrich a German Romantic artist a Romantic piece of art doesn't have to be colorful or have a lot of emotions. One of his famous piece Monk by the Sea painted in 1809 was just showing a picture of a monk staring at the sea. This represents the movement of Romantic Landscape.
If an individual stare at this piece for the first time, it doesn't have anything special to it. However, the eerie color and the foggy atmosphere gives people the feeling of sadness and perhaps lonely. There are people today who are really scare of ghosts, monsters or blood, but once a while they'd still like to watch a scary movie. Similarily, people back then were used to look at exotic and colorful paintings, but if they look at this piece by Friedrich they'd still able to have the feeling of lonely through the colors and the foggy atmosphere painted in this painting.

Pity the Sorrows of the old man

This piece marvelously painted by Gericault during the movement of Romanticism in the 1820s is differently expressed in terms of texture and color. Compare to other Ronamticism artists Gericault is a genious because he was able to show and bring emotions to the audience in this piece with the absent of colr. In this piece, the subject is the wealthy old man depressingly sitting in the street with his dog.

This painting shows a connection to the twenty century by proving that no matter how wealthy someone is during any period in history, money sometimes can't bring happiness to people. Gericault proved this by illustrated a well dressed wealthy man sitting on a street in a neighborhood that isn't so rich. This is an irony because a rich man depressingly sitting in a poor neighborhood. This is symbolically similar to rich people in the 21st century who feel lonely after they work their whole life and in the end these people are the only ones left alive when their family all passed away.