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My opinion on “The Wanderer”

I think that the wanderer is a really powerful piece which totally engages the person looking at it. The person standing with his back to us is ginger which could suggest that he is Scottish. The Scottish were descendent of the celts and the celts used to love a fight. This could mean that the man could be ready to fight someone in the way that he is stood there. He also has a walking stick it looks like in his hand which could mean that he was crippled if he was fighting maybe. He is also standing on a rock. It is quite a weird rock in the way that it is shaped, and the man is leaning to one side as it is slanted. He is standing on it with one leg higher than the other one. The one that is higher than the other one could be held there in triumph, as if it was stronger or something. Moreover there is a very weird mountain that is in the back of the picture. The mountain has got some clouds on top of it. This shows just how tall the actual mountain is or how low the clouds are. In the picture as well the is either a really quick gust of wind going on, or that there is a really rapid mini waterfall going on. The way that the artist has drawn that is really cool and very fascinating in the way it looks. If it was a water fall it would work with the picture very well in real life as it is an iconic image in most movies when someone is about to take on the whole world, they are standing in a really cool setting, background or place. The tone of the picture is really well drawn aswell as the artist has moved the brush in the same direction every time. Caspar David Friedrich made this painting with strokes of a brush in 1818. He goes from the bottom left up to the top right of you look closely. The  painting is a oil-on-canvas one. However he could have done it with water colour.