NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural world with bleak yet awe-inspiring beauty.

The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich hover between the sublime and the syrupy, occasionally touching down on either side of that surprisingly narrow divide. There are the ravishingly misted, ...

“Monk by the Sea,” 1808-10, in the exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times Supported by By ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum presents A Brush with Nature: Romantic Landscape Drawings, an exhibition of more than 30 works from the Getty Museum’s collection by significant British, French, and German ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (circa ... Naturalism had its limits: “a picture should not simulate nature itself and attempt to deceive, but should only remind one of it.” ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a press preview for Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, the first major retrospective in the United States dedicated to the German Romantic painter Caspar ...

On American Abstract Artists, Caspar David Friedrich, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, a Tuscan estate & more from the world of ...

Keith Haring created this screen-printed flag for a travelling outdoor exhibition organised by the Gran Pavese Foundation in 1988. The Flag Project invited 50 artists, including Haring, to design ...

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Quietly, in murmuring evening tones, “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” speaks of a world out of joint. Organized by Alison Hokanson and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, the show comes in ...