to director cardillac happening. with ice cream just around the corner this. invention just celebrated an anniversary. book. it was first shown in berlin in the fall of ten it seemed like the m.t.s. picture the art world had ever seen the monk by the by. is a masterpiece of german romantic painting with the natural landscape functioning as a mirror of the soul well now thanks to virtual reality there's interest to the national gallery can immerse themselves in the painting and commune with the monk and more. a tiny figure standing on the beach in front of a rough sea in the sky a heaped up mountains of clouds dotted friedrichs the monk by the sea is a radical image almost abstract and it's an icon of romantic painting but in one thousand it shocked friedrichs contemporaries. contemporary critics of brentano and clive that it was a. cutaway because this work is. only a single figure can be seen on the beach which is otherwise disaster. but now the monk is entering the age of virtual reality with high tech glasses you can now immerse yourself in this masterpiece