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When he returns to the motif in his small but magnificent "Woman at the Window" 1822, Friedrich's uncanny new take on the age-old equation of a painting as a window reveals his image to be a sophisticated essay about the nature of perception.

At the Threshold Between Art and Nature Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

Hamburger Kunsthalle 'Caspar David Friedrich in His Studio' 1811 by Georg Friedrich Kersting Given the theme's redolent place in the painter's oeuvre, it is hardly surprising that Friedrich's colleagues took it up in their own work.

At the Threshold Between Art and Nature Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

"Man and Rock," an excerpt from Ms. Friedrich's feature-length "Gut Renovation," examines the conversion of Williamsburg's artist-friendly blocks into a landscape of upscale high-rises.

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Though beautiful and often filled with evanescent light, few such later works offer more than a decorous shell of all that Friedrich's painting had held.

At the Threshold Between Art and Nature Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

Meticulously framed by windows that echo the rectangular shape of his canvas, Friedrich's subject became not so much the landscape as his unique experience of it, and his freedom to capture his view of nature as he chose.

At the Threshold Between Art and Nature Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

The most striking work on display is Rafael Pavon's reworking of Caspar David Friedrich's "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog."

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Alas, Skyrim's bruiser would make mincemeat out of Friedrich's thoughtful ramblers.

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The most striking work on display is Rafael Pavon's reworking of Caspar David Friedrich's "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog."

Richard MacKichan: Classic Works Get a Modern Makeover at London's Remastered Richard MacKichan 2011

At its most profound, and especially in Friedrich's work, the motif of a view through an open window celebrated the utter subjectivity of the painter's vision at the very threshold that divided his world and the realm of art from nature.

At the Threshold Between Art and Nature Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011