tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706678653651301316.post3473062364474199834..comments2024-02-27T00:28:09.103-08:00Comments on Art Blog By Bob: Moonlight SonataUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706678653651301316.post-18819440278996402692008-09-08T12:06:00.000-07:002008-09-08T12:06:00.000-07:00The imagery in Herzog's films should be a clue to ...The imagery in Herzog's films should be a clue to his strong visual and emotional link to both Friedrich and romanticism. This certainly includes his docs, like Grizzly Man, White Diamond, and the recent one about Antarctica, which all dwell and linger on sublime scenes of terrible nature. In his Nosferatu of 1979, a take on the Dracula story, there are compositions of figures in landscapes (as well as a color palette) lifted DIRECTLY from Freidrich paintings, as well as some ideas from Brueghel (but that's not Romanticism, exactly).<BR/>I'm not sure where you derive the thought that Romanticism is about man larger than nature-- I've always taken it as man humbled by nature's beauty, terror, power and sublimity. And that certainly is an area of deep concern, conflictedness and struggle in Herzog's films, in my opinion.*https://www.blogger.com/profile/08241577590277573030noreply@blogger.com