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.