Great Art Explained: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

Alternatively, every video has a "thanks" button under it- I appreciate it! The age of Enlightenment was a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries, and it focused mainly on the power of human intelligence to explain the natural world. Romanticism emerged as a response to the cold science of the Enlightenment, with Romantics maintaining that art emerges from divine inspiration, and the artist’s role is as the mediator between the creative and the divine.

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