Caspar David Friedrich by Juan Francisco Yedra https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq What are the romantic elements of these paintings? en-us 2018-09-10 12:39:28 UTC 2025-04-21 20:56:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Juan Manuel Sanchez https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279405606 This painting expresses romantic ideas since the building painted in the background has gothic architecture. This is the bilding with tall towers which is a verticaly based architecture. The concept of sublime which by definition places something below another, the architecture of this structure makes you look upwards. The painting also portrays destruction of nature by building a society, this is shown from the perspective the painting is drawn. The society viewed from the destroyed perspective, from what was left behing in order for the society to be built.  The sad and warm coloros emphasizes the destruction towards nature.]]> 2018-09-10 13:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279405606 Alejandra Arrangoiz https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279405615 In this painting you can see it is romantic because it shows nature all around the boys. You do not see any industrial things, only nature. The painting shows an emotion through the boys walking towards where the sun is setting. It is showing beauty by the sunset and the boys that are watching it. It shows how it is beauty because there is no cities or civilization that has corrupted everything else and ruined it, it shows how there is only nature and love between the boys who are in the painting. The boys are a main part of this painting and it portrays them as kind of rural because they are in the country side and you can't see anything else. It shows the boys living a simple life with no worries of the civilization that manipulate everything.  ]]> 2018-09-10 13:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279405615 Salma Albino-Hakim https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406065  "Moon Rising over Sea"
This painting shows elements of Romanticism. The title itself focuses only nature, which is part of the idea the Wordsworth, along with the Romantics, believed; nature should be chosen over factories or anything industrialized. The painting also shows only nature and is representing this idea that Wordsworth argued towards. Moreover, the individuals included in the painting are showing love, like Goethe wrote in his book, and without influences from the transcendentalist society. This means that the couples in the painting are not part of the industrialized society. " For
every state {would} treat free human beings as cogs in a machine." Baudelaire was one to look down on those who were stuck and enslaved in the industrialized, capitalist world. Romantics really highlighted love. There is also a meaningful color contrast representing approximation to the threshold. The couple in the front right of the painting appears to still be getting close to the threshold, not yet having achieved that sense of longing unity because they are still in the darker part of the painting. The couple in the center of the painting appear to be at the threshold and achieving that sense of unity and oneness, meaning they transgressed and attained the pleasure they were longing for in one another (“dying” in the other). This is important because it acts like proof for the romantics the they can see the thing-in-itself (noumenal reality) without time, space, and categories; which are the transcendental conditions that Kant said the world must have in order to know things. Furthermore, Kant said that one cannot know if one is free, if there is a God, and if one has a soul. This depiction of love helps romantics to find the mortal soul and the existence of God, hence they can contradict Kant’s ideals and prove that one can know that freedom, the soul, and God are true. 
]]> 2018-09-10 13:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406065 Lucia Ruiz de Velasco https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406132 This painting called "The Hunter in the forest" by David Friedrich shows the nature side of things, rather than something more industrialized. David Friedrich uses Wordsworth to show a hunter in a woods instead of a more industrialized setting, something that the romantics would've considered as contaminated, unlike nature, which is more pure. To some extent, it can also show something sublime, since the hunter is below the trees, but can look upwards at things, showing certain beauty. By this, It gives a more gothic perspective, , meaning "Underneath the Threshold", and in this case, underneath the trees, since you have to be under the trees to be able to appreciate it more. This idea that you no longer appreciate something by watching it horizontally, but rather vertically can be easily seen in this painting, by showing the vertical side of the forest, rather than a horizontal one. Like the romantics thought, you have to look up in oder to have the Aesthetic experience, much like this hunter is doing in the painting. This being said, the romantics try to incorporate this idea of Neumeno Reality, and how they want to access all things that are not limited to space, categories or time, and somehow this painting gives us this by not giving us what time of the day it is because of the lack of light or darkness in the painting. Nature is also important to the romantics because to them, nature means god, and in this painting, the hunter finds himself alone surrounded by this divine presence. ]]> 2018-09-10 13:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406132 Paola Oberhauser https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406141 Firstly, this painting is romantic even in the title. The name is "A Women at Sunset or Sunrise", which challenges the transcendental condition of time. One can not know exactly the time at which this woman contemplates nature, meaning that she is alone with nature, not necessarily within an exact time, getting further away from the phenomenal reality. It also plays with the idea of the impractical. Feeling and contemplating nature may not seem useful in an industrialised society, yet going back to a simpler way of life is what can be fulfilling, such as what Gaugin experienced. There is no industrialisation present in the painting, which can relate to the poems of Wordsworth, where nature should be prevalent in a time of machine control. This woman is also "outside" of society, and away from capitalism.This is similar to Baudelaire's lifestyle, as he looked down on those who were slaves of capitalism. ]]> 2018-09-10 13:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406141 Alaniz_1A https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406169 This painting presents the romantic aspects of nature, death and old or Gothic art. Given that the painting is sad, nature is presented in the winter, with no sunlight; in a sad period of death. Death is directly related to this because romantics present death and nature as some of the keys to art and life. The painting depicts an old or otherwise destroyed cathedral, which has the vertically stretched aspect of a Gothic cathedral. This relates to what Romantics take back from the past, which is the Neoclassical (Romanesque but after the fall of Rome); influenced by the Goths. The painting creates a focal point towards the center of the painting, presenting what is most likely a burial. This directly relates to the Noumenal reality which Romantics are trying to reach, and can only be reached in death. Adding to the previous statement, the painting shows the destroyed door of the Gothic church among all the dead nature as what could be the entrance to the Noumenal reality; one which the artist might be wishing for, given his sorrow in the Phenomenal reality. ]]> 2018-09-10 13:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406169 Enrique Gómez https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406298 This painting depicts the ruins of a huge church now covered with plants and with a family living in a small house made at its base. This painting shows many elements that make it romantic. First of all, the image depicts nature overtaking something man made. This relates to the ideas of Wordsworth and the rejection of the technology (i.e. man made things) and returning to nature. Friedrich depicts this by showing how nature has overtaken a monolithic creation that man made. This painting also relates to Pugin's ideas of returning to the medieval. Friedrich's painting shows a huge church that sees to have been created in these times. The family living at the base of the church also relates to the middle ages, as they appear to be peasant farmers. Friedrich wishes to return to the Middle Ages as it was a time before technology and industrialization took over the world. It was a time when Romans (Novels) were made on fantastical tales about knights. Thus it was a magical and ideal time for man.  The church within itself presents another romantic ideal, as it appears to be very tall and, even in the painting, requires one to look up from where the entrance (threshold) of the church would have been to appreciate its beauty. This relates to the Gothic view on architecture and how buildings needed to be tall in order to appreciate the sublime.  ]]> 2018-09-10 13:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406298 Santiago Olivares https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406320 This image by Caspar Friedrich is romantic because it is showing the nature of the human being without the influence of society, which romantics argue that the development of cities and the advancements of technology have ruined the human being. The painting also has romantic elements in the fact of the arguments nature vs industrialization. The painting does not have any elements related to city and instead of lights created artificially the painting is being illuminated by the moon. Another romantic element that the picture portrays is the argument that living a more simpler way of life is better than living in the big cities which are taking over nature and as it is in the painting there is a couple who appear to be living a very simple life, away of their problems and civilization. This painting represents one of the main ideologies and arguments of the romantics which is that nature is better that industry, because as the romantics argue, nature is the place where the phenomenal and neumenon realities can be found. it shows humans experiencing nature in it's true-self which  symbolizes the connection the romantics felt to it. ]]> 2018-09-10 13:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406320 Luiza Teixeira https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406450 This painting is romantic / has romantic elements. One of the elements is the presence of nature. Romantics refute the idea of industrialization and love the idea of nature. Additionally, there is a couple in this picture, romaticism emphasizes love and exagerated gestures of love. In this painting he uses phenomenal reality because this was a representation of his relationship with his wife. Phenomenal reality is composed by the appearances which constitute our reality, his reality is one in which him and his wife are in a romantic  setting. It could also be argued that they are in the threshold between life and death. In my point of view, the way the painter contrasts the shadows of the couple and the sunset represents the contrast between life and death or the natural world and paradise. the fact the couple is in the middle, the threshold, shows how only through doing things such as getting married (which is the case of this couple because they represent the painter and his wife) can one approach being one and being complete. This idea can also be seen through the poem Erste Elegie because it is stated “Beauty refuses to destroy the poet / merge in him” beauty being the nominal reality (Can’t be explained or known). The man is stuck in reality and cannot cross to death / be one. This idea is represented in this painting through the contrast between the shadows and pehnominal reality. This represents a couple trying to become one and get into nominal reality, therefore showing romantic and kantian principles.  
 
]]> 2018-09-10 13:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406450 https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406494 Valentina Rast

This painting by Friedrich David Casper. It was Painted in the Romantic era in the late eighteenth century that had the characteristic of "showing stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of nature. " In this painting Caspar demonstrates this impressive land scape of a forest, that emphasised in the sublimity of nature of the time. This idea came from the re visitation of the romans, when in reality it was the greeks and their adoration for nature that means from from bottom to top were you can see everything from on top. The Romantic era was also known for the acceptance of the ridiculous and the opposite of reason. It used dark colors to give a dark, creepy grotesque feeling, but at the same time the beauty that can be reflected from it. ]]> 2018-09-10 13:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406494 Iñigo Lopez https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406642 This painting made by Caspar has many elements related to romanticism, its this man standing up at the top of a mountain looking at the fog beneath him. This image could be related with romanticism because this man can't look through the fog, so the fog is a symbol for beauties, this is because humans can't see through beauties, beauty is something that we have to find. Also beauty can be known as the beginning of terror, so in this image underneath the fog there could be terror because the man does not know what is in there and he could also be afraid. It also has some key elements such as nature, nature is something that has been recognized as beautiful, the man is praising the beauties he can't admire while being there, he has the perspective of the sublime, from where he is he can see everything and can appreciate it different from the rest of the world.]]> 2018-09-10 13:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406642 Carlos Sandoval https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406702 This painting by Caspar Friedrich is a good representation of what romanticism is and what it represents. During this time, the industrial revolution was happening, making people move further and further away from nature. Big cities arose as well as manufacturing. In romanticism, nature is fundamental, as artists and writers tried to make people remember, this concept was incorporated by William Wordsworth. In this painting, there is a clear view of nature as Caspar is showing how, in time, nature will always win, as it is the most natural of them both. There is a clear gothic structure in the middle of the painting that, relates to how things are supposed to be seen vertically to be able to appreciate the sublime. Nature as mentioned before, takes a fundamental part in this, however, there are other elements that make it sublime. You can barely see the people under the gothic structure, the difference is extreme when compared with the trees and the structure itself, making it seem as it  transcended the rational. This picture can be seen as abandonment portraying the importance romantics give to this elements in art. This can be compared to the poem L’albatros, as in both artistic expressions, there is a sense of abandonment, implying that people with this artistic talent are not being accepted and understood.  ]]> 2018-09-10 13:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279406702 Victor Hernandez https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279407020 The painting by Friedrich David Casper shows a flourishing society without any signs of technology and civilization present. Nature is growing towards its largest potential since we can see that even trees are growing on rock structures. We can see that the painting is structured as a hypokeimenon structure starting from below -> upwards. We also can see a single structure of tree in the middle of the painting representing the isolation romantics need since they feel trapped in a controlled society by capitalism also known as wage followers. These elements show the freedom of the romantics and the lack of state for society shows development and further understanding of knowledge.]]> 2018-09-10 13:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279407020 Alan Lask https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279407123 The Sea of Ice properly represents the destruction of technology and civilization involved in Romanticism. This is seen through the broken ground and the abandoned ship on the right side of the painting. Furthermore, the painting shows the good side of nature by depicting this icy plain as a symbol of beauty and isolation. The perspective of the painting sees these clusters of ice from the Hypokeimenon (from below/upwards) and depicts a wondrous world in the back as if it were untouched and uncorrupted by man.]]> 2018-09-10 13:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279407123 jimena uribe https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279408139 This painting by Caspar David Friedrich, represents romanticism by many aspects. The person in top of the rocks shows the power he has over nature since he is above everything. The man had to go up the rocks in order to be in top of the fog and see nature. Fog in this image can be a r representation of terror. In order to find beauty you have to go first through terror, this is why "beauty is the beginning of terror".  In order to be in top of things and find power, you have to go through experiences which might include terror. But also by going through terror beauty can be find. This also sublimity because sublime mans high or elevated. This man is in the top of everything so he is as high as he can be. When talking of beauty in the term sublime means that beauty is so closed to terrible things. The man is at the top of everything but he is also very closed to terrible things that could be underneath the fog. ]]> 2018-09-10 13:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279408139 Fernanda McCoy https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279413304 Monk by the Sea was painted by Friedrich David Caspar during German Romanticism in the eighteenth century. The painting is romantic because it values nature above all industry and urbanization, it focuses in an individuals feelings and emotions. The painting is composed by a clear landscape of the key shore and sea. A monk stands in the middle of the landscape amazed by the deepness of it all. The emphasis of the painting is that there are no boundaries, nothing to hold on to and just the sense of floating between night and day. Nature is represented by god and god is in everything. The Monk stands before his creation of nature instead of feeling his presence in a church. ]]> 2018-09-10 14:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/279413304 Ariane Eichner https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/280029418 This painting by Caspar David friedrich is a good representation of what romantic art was in the early 19th century since it shows it stressed strong emotions imagination and freedom to go against social norms and against ideas that reason may not be the only way to view the world and industrialisation .In these painting we can see how the artist incorporates the cycle of life and nature. Time and nature are things that humans are unable to control.Romantics are going back to the ancient thinking were men and nature were the measure of all things.Romantics are going against all the materialistic and manufacture things that the 18th century introduced into the world. Instead they incorporate the idea of the sublime that is something powerful elevated that comes from above with the intention to use this thinking of things that cannot be explained by reason and add them into their paintings .In the painting the stages of life first we see noumenal thinking since it shows the stages of a person's life meaning that life and age is a thing in itself and has no explanation. The painting first depicts the different ages of a person first throughout their life,is defying this ideas that came before the romantics about reason and science. In the painting there is also a magic sky and we can see the sun casting a magic light into the sky with the water barely moving and the boats nearly disappearing  into the sea so we can also infer that nature cannot be predicted that is just a thing that exist and cannot be explained also is breaking with the ideas of pure reason categories space and time,because the boats are disappearing and is impossible to know if they are in a certain space or time getting further away from the phenomenal reality and introducing deep emotions and romantic thinking. Overall these elements ,nature, the noumenal and emotions are romantic because they break from the age of enlightenment that followed all the scientific innovations and methods .In the enlightenment emotions or nature would not be believed to be a way to understand life. 

]]> 2018-09-11 18:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/280029418 Manuel Navarrete https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/281257607 The painting Midday by Caspar David Friedrich greatly portrays the Romanticism of the time. It displayed what Romantics thought at the time. It gives great importance to Nature and our world. Friedrich in this painting portrays how us human beings are incomparable in size to nature and we represent just a small factor of it. How we should explore our world and that would be a great task since nature is so big we cannot even comprehend it. This great piece of art also portrays a mysterious world we do not yet understand. Additionally, it portrays the beauty of the world without the need of industrialization. The fact that this painting does not show any part of society just emphasizes more that all the developments in huge metropolis’s are not needed and that nature represents beauty, not industrialization]]> 2018-09-14 12:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/yedraj/r0163f46lhuq/wish/281257607