New Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

🌀At the Summit of the Mountains - The Pioneers of German Romantic Aesthetics 👩A New Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York — Caspar David Friedrich, a German Romantic Painter in the Early 19th Century: The Soul of Nature The Most Noteworthy Work in the New Exhibition: "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" is being exhibited in the United States for the first time. It is an exceptional loan from the Kunsthalle Hamburg in northern Germany. 🎩In his paintings, there are rocks shining brightly in the moonlight, an isolated cross in the evergreen forest, and lonely Germans standing on the shore and gazing into the distance. Most of the figures in the paintings are shown from the back, either looking out of the window, staring at the endless sea, or standing at the summit of the mountains. At this moment, the verse "When I reach the top and look down, all the other mountains appear small" is visualized. 🎭Friedrich's spontaneous and sometimes mysterious gaze at the natural world has become his distinctive style. Those figures who always turn their backs to the viewers while looking at the scenery are, in the eyes of the viewers, also part of the scenery. 👩‍🍼"The mission of a work of art is to perceive the spirit of nature, to immerse oneself in it with all one's body and mind, to absorb it, and then to present it in the form of a painting." —— Friedrich #RecommendationsforWorthwhileExhibitions #Friedrich #GermanRomanticism #SpecialExhibitionattheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #ExhibitionViewinginNewYork #met #NewYork ArtGalleries #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArtMET