Perspective: The great Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich gushed masterpieces. One of the few in America is at the Met.
, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is one of only a few Friedrichs in America. The third of three versions of the same subject, it shows Friedrich, at right, and his friend and disciple August Heinrich gazing out from a steep hillside at a waxing moon, with Venus visible beside it.
But the inconsistency in Friedrich’s reception is also a phenomenon of Romanticism itself. As a movement, Romanticism was always involved in forms of negation in favor of things freshly perceived, or the recollection of those things . That freshness of apprehension, and the intensity of its recollection, made the experiences themselves destabilizing.
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