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The void in romantic painting


Caspar David Friedrich




Mönch am Meer, 1809/1810



Meadows near Greifswald, 1820



1821


Mondaufgang am Meer, 1821



Abend, 1824



Two men contemplating the moon, 1830

Das große Gehege, 1832



Der Träumer, 1835


Joseph Turner



Colour Beginning, 1819



Fishing Boats, 1827



The Evening Star, 1830



Keelmen, 1835



Margate from the Sea, 1835-1840



Landscape with distant rain and boat, 1840-1850



Stormy Sea with Dolphins, 1840



Sun Setting over a Lake, 1840



Venice with Santa Maria della Salute, 1840-1845



Lake of Geneva, 1841



Light and Colour, 1843



Norham Castle, 1844



Procession (Boats, Distant Smoke),
Venice, 1845



Festive Laguna Scene, 1845



Sunrise with Seamonsters, 1845




Sunrise with a Boat between Headlands, 1845



Hurrah for the Whaler Erebus! - 1846

"The artist delights to go back to the first chaos of the world... All is without forms and void. Some one said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing, and very like."

William Hazlitt: "Round Table."
Examiner, 1816.


James Whistler




Sea and Rain, 1865



Symphony in Grey, 1871



Nocturne: Blue and Silver, 1872