It is summer in Germany like you cannot imagine: +37C and it is even hotter when you think of what German football team does to all those grands like Argentina and England. So I went to Wikipedia and chose a good German painter, which you probably never heard of before Caspar David Friedrich.
What can a romantic rabbit dream of in a hot summer night (hint it is wet and was a precursor to life on earth): of course some water falling from the skies:
Alexandra, Hot summer dream
The artist
Herr Friedrich lived and worked in Germany in the beginning of the XIX century. He had a long but a bumpy life: struggled, started a new art movement, got recognized, got successful, fall in love, got rich, got broken and forgotten. Whatever has happen in his life we now one thing for sure he had discovered "the tragedy of landscape".
The See of Ice, Caspar Friedrich
Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, Caspar Friedrich
And our favorite painting:
Landscape with Owl, Grave, and Coffin
Friedrich painted landscapes, but from a new perspective - they expressed feelings, emotions, state of soul. Later they called it Romanticism; preferably strong expressions like death, loneliness and sorrow, but also love and wonder were his subjects. Many paintings introduced a dark figure staying with the back to the viewer, so that the viewer was transferred into this figure and could witness the landscape almost from the inside.
Hot Summer Dream
What can you dream of in a hot summer night (hint it is wet and was a precursor to life on earth): of course some water falling from the skies:
Hot summer dream, sketch zero, Alexandra
Hot summer dream, being drawn, Alexandra
Hot summer dream, first water drops, lighting stretching down to the Mainzer Dom, Alexandra
Hot summer dream, rabbit is back, Alexandra
Alexandra, Hot summer dream
Stay put, get hydrated, enjoy the summer till it lasts.
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