Feeling sublime? 🏔 In his archetypal Romantic painting, Caspar David Friedrich uses the dramatic landscape and seemingly infinite sky to evoke the immensity of the human mind ☁️ Exploring iconic works like this, as well as fresh and unexpected examples, Julian Bell’s ‘What is Painting?’ takes a focused look at painting in contemporary culture, interrogating how our ideas of the craft have changed over the past two centuries. Image: Caspar David Friedrich, A Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog, c. 1818. #painting #painter #painters #arthistory #artwork #artbooks #artcriticism #artbook #art #fineart #artoftheday #paintings #romanticism #paintingoftheday #oilpainting #oilpaintings #artworkoftheday #sublime #inspiration #landscapepainting #bookstagram #arthistorynerd #explorer