Caspar David Friedrich and the mystery of eternity
The great painter, born 250 years ago, made it his lifelong task to depict the numinous in nature.
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ByWhy the great Spanish painter’s work still resonates so urgently.
ByWithin weeks of finishing his final painting, a murder scene, the artist was himself dead.
ByHow the first female painter admitted into the Royal Academy became one of the great celebrities of her age.
ByAlso this week: Philip Larkin’s “ecclesiastical journeys”, and general election date intel.
ByIn “Soulscapes”, contemporary artists of the African diaspora depict the lands that shaped them.
ByHer Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.
ByThese portraits have a haunted quality, the spectres of all the deleted images that went before.
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