A visitor to Friedrich’s studio, Helene von Kügelgen, suggested that the same painting would be less frightening if he put a sea monster in ... How did a man who painted foggy mountains and ...

Look at that. Let that paint break. No pressure. Can't say that enough times. There it goes. Okay, take a little edge of the knife. We'll put a little (grunts) right there. Maybe even some right ...

Beechey solves the artistic challenge of a night scene at sea ... in art and man, the virgin universe.” His love for the austere Greenland vistas comes through powerfully in this painting.