Winter Landscape With a Church
Caspar David Friedrich, Germany
oil on board, 1811
Name that mood!
Hard to see all the details of this painting on the size I can share, but if you’re interested, Google it for a better view and some observations made about it.
This picture has been making me envious about going sledding there and building snowmen. Then go inside that cozy looking place for some hot chocolate. I was fortunate to be in Colorado just on the tail’s edge of their helping of that dangerous cold snow storm.
I also got Narnia vibes, and a worried sense of avalanche doom.
In a larger depiction, you can more easily see there’s a person lying against those rocks, as well as a few other things, like crutches.
Here is one critic’s discussion of the painting.
Yeah, after reading your linked interpretation, I completely missed the crutches and a man propped up by the rock. Perhaps there was a skiing accident right there long ago whose skiing partner died and those crutches belonged to the injured survivor paying a memorial visit. That’s a big difference between me wanting to go play in that snow!
Ha.
Or he threw away his crutches because he can walk again!