Frozen water
February 16th, 2007 by herinde
This reproduction of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting “Sea of Ice” has left a strong impression in my mind. Not because of it’s dramatic story of the colossal strength of nature swallowing a ship whole. No, I’m truly inspired by the formal strength of the painting. The clear logic of the zig-zagging and seemingly chaotic surfaces and lines. The awesome sense of composition. In my mind it’s very tiny step to cubism.
Due to this inspiration, one of my digital projects found its final form. The project is called “Ice” and is a part of a series called “Monochrome Landscapes”. It is a sort of boiled down, automatically generated version of some of the principles from the painting - although I don’t presume to get close to the qualities of Friedrich’s work :-)
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Your monochrome icelandscape is fascinating. Simple and yet very complex.
Both the Friedrich-painting and the digital ice-project show a suprising - yet commonly know - fact about waves. That these soft, watery, rolling masses of water freeze into zigzagging sharp shapes… ~~~~^~~~