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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - Caspar David Friedrich (1818)

"Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" is a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, oil on canvas (38.8 in × 29.4 in), from 1818, and is displayed at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany. The wanderer, already implied in the name, embodies the idea of a journey, an endless search that gets lost in the mysteries of life, echoing the themes of wandering and exile characteristic of the Romantic movement. The nature in which he is immersed, at times a mountain massif, at times the vast sea of fog, represents the poetics of the sublime and the beautiful, igniting a movement in the soul in the face of the magnificence and grandeur of the landscape. The man's position in relation to the vastness of the scenery allows us to comprehend how small the human dimension is compared to nature, thus giving rise to a sense of awe before the immensity of the universe, also created by the use of colors with shades that create a stark contrast with the background. The man stands before the infinite as something inaccessible, surpassing human understanding, yet he is simultaneously drawn to it. This position evokes the hidden and unconscious part of the human soul, also stirring feelings of unease and a search for what lies beyond the limits imposed by nature.
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