RT Journal
A1 Cole TB
T1 MOnk by the sea
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2011
FD January 19
VO 305
IS 3
SP 227
OP 227
DO 10.1001/jama.2010.1986
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.1986
AB 
Throughout his life, the painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) struggled with depression, but he managed to remain productive by projecting his emotions into his paintings. Friedrich used oblique views, low light, cloud cover, and silhouettes to emphasize distance, strangeness, and scale. His paintings were emotionally evocative without being symbolic. Viewers sensed loneliness, longing, transcendence, love, death, regret, and the anxiety of the unknown in his paintings, without always being able to put their finger on precisely what they felt about them or how the images made them feel that way.