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tv   Arts Unveiled  Deutsche Welle  April 7, 2024 2:30pm-3:01pm CEST

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the nose understand can have the same as like the right just present. do you have any news on instagram? follow the almost if you have to imagine that it really hits like a bomb, i guess i have, i think paintings like a bon. we're talking about cost, but obviously donation a painter who still has an influence on the visual aesthetics of today. we'll examine his paintings of magical beauty and dark melancholy. the painter of the sky, the sea solitude, silence. we'll also meet people in whom his paintings live on and we'll find out why he depicted everyone from behind, cuthbert dotted sweetly. she revealed
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the, there are plenty of good reasons to take a closer look at the painter in his $250.00 of anniversary year. so here are 10 of his most famous paintings, starting with a legendary back the, the magnum opus trans. is that what we see here? hiker has just climbed a high peak taking the last difficult step. now he rests his hair blond. lexi denise is blown by the wind. he looks into the distance. will it be done soon? fog is gathering the mountain landscape, lies below him. the world is at his feet or perhaps not
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a visit to the landscape, insects, and switzerland that inspired the painting is sobering. it's clear that free for these figures wonder through fantasy landscapes composed from different places to cause a quote from the great dots of free duration is that the color is just not perceived as a car wash, but that image is created. it's like a great utopia of a picture cause or to p. i must be, it is the utopia of a picture. hardly anyone knows free today as well as art historian, hug middle class. he's been studying the, please, the phenomenon for several decades now. and he has his own explanation for the current state police mania to be definitely extend his paintings or something incredibly fascinating. or if you look closely, you see the subtlety with which he constructs his pictorial wells lie. the way he paints on a small scale has a great presence. and at the same time,
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the space is also open. you have these one to, for these stretched out skies, which are sometimes just color and have an incredible intensity. you know how these kind of low please enter the tape. is it the sky? overdressed and at dusk these are precisely the moments please, please was looking for there are moments in which something passes and something new emerges. skies of transition. twilight, the changing moment. impossible to capture in words, the sky in nature as a space for the soul. a new way of seeing which please wish harold's contents which have free duration, fundamentally changed of you including a few of the landscape. we can no longer see a sunset without thinking of free duration. to think.
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this is how it all begins. this alter is not in a church, but in addressed in museum. a rocky mountain peak, overgrown with fruit trees. crucifix entwined with ivy, a figure of christ turned away from us. rays of sunlight against the pink, glowing, cloudy sky. the frame was designed by sweetly himself a mine ears of corn, the eye of god. symbols of christianity. angels, chrome, the work of art. this is free to these 1st oil painting debut and to break with the traditional rules of art, a new beginning. so i think this is what was it made him famous. one fell swoop data suddenly christmas 18 o 8. there is this painting in his studio and you have to imagine it really did
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like a volume top as well. i guess i have, i'm going to bump up dressed and had never seen anything like it when he painted this picture. so he does. this was 32 years old and had been living in the eastern german city for 10 years. at that time, dressed and was an argument populous and sleep to these was a central figure. but one who divided opinion is on a freight branch was controversial. stop the west fans that collected his paintings are kind of identified with his works. and then with those who said it so monotonous, it's very melancholy. i mean, i corner please. they spend 30 more years of his life and dressed, and he married, had children, and died in poverty in 1840 his paintings. donald had fallen out of favor. realism won out over his romanticism. he was condemned to oblivion
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for they lived through troubled times. the french revolution had just failed. the old political order was turned upside down. napoleon conquered europe and occupied, dressed in saxony, in 1813 calls for democracy and freedom grew louder and shape slightly, thinking the color spit out. it was the doctor is free drinks and paintings are characterized on the one hand by the deep religious nature. and on the other hand, they are completely tied to the political situation. it was a time of his grades, political upheaval, heights caused these challenges for the people of his time inside that tight for hope all's fordable. restore item truthfully was born on september 5th, 1774, to a strict protestant family,
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and guy spied on the baltic sea he began to draw. this was how he saw himself in 18 o 2. at the age of 28. as a young man full of yearning, his drawings and paintings are characterized by memories of the sea and the coast of his childhood. but the water can also be threatening. a huge ice flow is pile up to form apparent at the sky is less than the turtle. ice shimmers blueish and brown. we are facing a boundless polar landscape. mighty in human, sublime, threatening only at 2nd glance, do we recognize the whole of a ship shattered by slabs of ice last forever. the 1st expeditions to the north pole took place during the least lifetime and failed. what does the painting say more than that? the motif may have its roots in a childhood event. in 1787,
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please release brother drowned before his very eyes. he died while trying to save cusp, adobe who had fallen into the ice. a lifelong trauma for the artist or so, the legend goes. skate on dimensions here. it's about our human existence within the cosmos. you could also call it within the divide that which humans cannot grasp, sneak, and it's please hold this awareness. that's what set him apart, that this awareness that there's something beyond. something with humans cannot grasp destination for some kind of and that is exactly what german romanticism is all about. privilege, it's most important. representative describes what cannot be put into words and his images of nature. nature as an image of the divine
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and majestic white peak reaches into the sky, recognizable as the watson in southern germany, perhaps one of the most beautiful alpine peaks. it's around mid day and the sun reflects off the snow and almost shadow this landscape. devoid of people, the image moves from deep dark tones after glistening white. we already know that the landscape here is also in utopia. in reality, the mountains in the foreground are hundreds of kilometers to the north. the painter had never seen the bucks, month or the alps. he again created a fantasy landscape this time from the foot of the mountain. here in the original location, we made up with the landscape photographer kelly and shadow cast by davi freeplay has been his source of inspiration for years. he appreciates the painter's precise feeling for atmosphere and for the magical moments of nature.
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the particulars from the b, i guess, for free duration mountain was including this apparent mid shape of the mountains, which is very pronounced and the bucks my peak were a connection between the fleet and the divine good. for me, these are freed ration my business, and i can also find free duration, the today, kelly, unsure and bad the finds pretty place moments in the present. this is how he sees the that's mine. and this is how cusp, adobe see, 3 thought. another popular street which motif was the who didn't cop photographed today and painted 200 years ago freed reach and shown back out both have a feeling for the vulnerability of creation to mrs. loved to landscape is not just in motion, not just you to follow up, and it tells me something. when i look down here today, i see how it roshan isn't changing the landscape. i can see at the beginning of
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february that the snow cover on the mountains is very low. i see the effects of climate change. these are things that can be read from the pictures of them for them, but obviously some con, carry on sure about that is a child of his time just like husband. obviously they both are faced with on certain times in which old orders are crumbling and both confront the challenges of these times in their art. but customer, david situation can also be full of the joys of life. pointed chalk, cliffs rise from the waves white against blue, a steep coast line. the horizon is shaded by kind of b of leaves. the baltic sea in summer, around mid day to sail boats in the distance.
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there is a feeling of lightness, almost as if we were looking through a window at the sea. a man gazes thoughtfully into the distance. but what is the other man doing, crawling on the ground? have his glasses fallen off? or is he overcome by fear of the steep drop? a woman points to something below him. could she be fleet lease wife, catalina? their honeymoon was spent here and lugen. the painting was created immediately afterwards. faithfully tells a small, very private story here and creates an allegory of love, loyalty and face the lonely man by the sea. some suspect it is clearly himself tiny in the vastness of space. his long monks road is the color of the turning water. gold circle above him, clouds piled up on the horizon. is it dawn? or is the thunder storm brewing?
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gloomy, turbulent water, white spray on the waves. his face is a bright spot. drawing our attention and almost timeless space. the man remains calm, standing is, are frozen as if he controlled the elements a radically empty picture. probably for the least most radical the monk by the sea is at home in berlin, in the i to not, you know, i got a and it was here that the forgotten pain to freespace was rediscovered in 19 o 6. germany got re acquainted with this painter in a spectacular exhibition of the day. i wanted to start this once in a lifetime exhibition for the police was a sensation. have people really celebrated. the monk by the sea has remained an
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icon of modernism. the treasures of the not so not gonna be include another picture of that sleepless, painted in the same period. does it have? these are symbols in these colors. these move this expression through the light exactly does contain wonderfully often and that's often the light of transmission just enough twilight, when and then it does. as we know, we have an incredible color spectrum, much more color than it mid day is will turn me text tide. early evening does calls an oak forest in winter without leaves? some trees seem dead. the moon has already risen half ruined gothic chapel. but what is really happening here? monks move almost silently. it seems towards the portal. carrying a coffin,
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they are carrying one of their own to the grave. the funeral procession cemetery. we are witnessing a funeral. beneath the stillness of the picture drama. on the horizon, a bright glow, the sun sitting. what prevails, death, or hope in the center of the picture is a tiny little bird splice. it's still a mystery. he doesn't tell any complete story because we as visitors as an audience can each find the answers for ourselves. and on to the left us and it'd be to and but this painting has not always stood before the viewer and such a radiant light. the painting has been undergoing restoration for 3 years now. christine emeryville. from the berlin. nothing i gotta say is responsible for restoring it to its former glory. the
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reason for the poor state of preservation is of course, that frederick was a forgotten office. just such a long time. and that's never good for paintings. if nobody knows the artist and then launch full met some of them, i'd rather not think about how these moves from a palace to palace were carried out in such a rough and ready manner. so that also play the role speed on the the centimeter by centimeter layer by layer christine and lose it. freeze fleet least original brush stroke from over painting and 14 layers of varnish and mix interesting discoveries in the process. the design, it's use i prepared most of his colors himself phones, you know, if i'm 11 does why he was suddenly so driven to colors that will so should, that was a huge the self confident step that on when painting he worked with way 15 layers
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of paint, which is almost a selling point of his central maxima, you can tell he's interested in the atmospheric, the franklin says she was supposed to be in for read images. also reveal fleet, at least under the surface drawings, especially spectacular in the monk by the sea. an audition, even in the sixty's, people suspected that there was something else under the monk by the scene, the assembly ships, she said she thought you can see fantastically detailed sailing ships. every road and every plank is recognizable. kimble, i'm on an anchor hanging over the side of the ship because i hang that's a total of 3 ships that free to reach the crew and then did not paint 5 minutes. i'm going to talk with the model. this nation was good. and so he radically emptied this composition. something he never did again. i mean, he took the most of the, of the in contrast to the month by the sea.
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this is a rather unknown work by sea face. yet a significant one, paying testimony to a lifelong friendship. 3 men at a railing, as always shone from behind. they are russian poets. one of them is the cds, you kosky, a friend and patron, a free place throughout his life. this picture represents a special story. a fleet of his closeness to russia and of russia's great love for him, the poet and statesmen, cds, you kosky, is responsible for infecting russia, with an ongoing, slightly fever. along with these 2 futures are nicholas the 1st and his wife, alexandra, who was princess. charlotte appreciated before her marriage,
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they travelled to dresden and purchased this painting in toledo, at least, workshop on the sailing boat. perhaps charlotte saw herself in the vault. charlotte was the system of a 100. what do you mind if i shot one of free g 1st collectors, which means that she was very familiar with his work in and she took her love of his work with her to st. petersburg. it's now some beautiful charlotte's love for customer david c 3. she was not only celebrated, at course, but too cold of all russian society. the consequences are still visible today. the hermitage in saint petersburg. now house is the largest and most important fleet which collection outside germany or to something seem familiar here in this painting. men again turn towards each other, demonstrating closeness. they contemplate nature immersed in it. a crescent moon is
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in the sky. the small picture is the epitome of german romanticism. and it's precisely this painting that will soon play a role of great significance. good . it is set to drop hounds to an expedition in 2025. the metropolitan museum of art in new york will be hosting the 1st major customer adobe police exhibition in the us. there's never been a comprehensive exhibition of his work. i'm here in the u. s. and we thought it was, it was time to really give our audience is a chance to, to get to explore his work in depth in the painter they recognize the beginning of a new relationship. the language of our exhibition is
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how we understand our relationship with nature. um and we want to encourage our audiences to, to think about the new visual language that he is creating. to express this new experience of nature, nature suddenly becomes central to our identity as to who we are. it becomes a place for spiritual and philosophical and emotional discovery for the curator see. so this is the for father of an ecological view of nature. the renaissance of this artist in the usa is a milestone. a good, a late work by straight ration. but what is it exactly? a cosmic sky? the curvature of yours. in fact, the picture shows a marshy landscape on the outskirts of dressed in
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a flooded area with islands of sand and mud. dark groups of trees alternate with light meadows. in the background, a barge sales on the elbow entering at life in the deserted landscape. the day is fading, the summer is slowly coming to an end pretty easily captures this fleeting moment the. this painting still fascinates. today. romanticism in art is in life. the east bed makes sense, a made and a is a student address, does university of fine arts. she's currently preparing for an exhibition in 2023. she received the cost, but obviously police prize. the jury chose her because they believe her work
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follows in the tradition of the great romantic painter. in an example of that word, a transparent curtain blows gently in the wind, softening the boundary between inside and out the familiar and a foreign of a photograph of bare trees in hazy, shifting light. where does she see parallels between herself and the romantic painter born more than 220 years before her as it is. so i think many, ah, she's story and see it very differently that from me has pictures the sent to about this new just lice. and this experience that you have when you were alone and to throw them back on yourself with guns. ok, so i have sort of off road a sensitivity for light and shadow for the feeling of being alone for the mood. this is what she shares with swedish
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the to the moment that moment when the sun comes over the horizon. and when i see the shadows moving on, the wall, i'm seeing the earth turning, and i become aware of how i sit on this and how small i am and how big the world is . this is the themes that i see. and frederick's painting see this in the community has the adobe suite, the nation, a painter for the present day. the last generation climate movement even sees him as an accomplice, fighting for the same things, for the salvation of the world. they want to emphasize that with this protest action, they want you to believe that customer dobby playstation was just like them. the one question remains why does cast by davi treat and they show people almost
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exclusively from behind. was he unable or unwilling to pain faces? certainly not, he was a great portrait painter. his perspective from behind was a conscious decision. these are proxy figures whose bodies we slip into, whose gaze we adopt. they are us. the next, the great thing about freed ration the opportunity to inhabit these figures to find the place within his words. well, we can emphasize with our feelings. precise trademark motif has said a trend and been imitated thousands of times even in advertising. and of course, in computer games, the protagonist back is ever present there. the avatars with which we enter the freight. they are us. the fleet like here 2024, has made it very clear. the artist is everywhere. the tier 2, by the way,
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in the classic movie bandy. and that's no coincidence because walt disney was also an avowed fan of cast by davi translation. the
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