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The Monk by the Sea, 1808
Caspar David Friedrich
Oil on canvas · 110 x 171.5 cm
A lone figure dwarfed by an almost empty sky and sea.
Friedrich strips landscape to almost nothing: a tiny monk, a dark shore, and an immense empty sky and sea. Radically bare for 1810, it confronts the viewer with pure vastness and solitude — one of the boldest, most modern-feeling of Romantic paintings.
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