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The fatigue (2022), oil on canvas by Mihail Zablodski

MWW Artwork of the Day (6/1/26) Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840) The Wanderer (Traveller looking over a Sea of Fog)(1818) Oil on canvas, 94.8 x 74.8 cm. Kunsthalle, Hamburg

In this quintessially Romantic painting a lonely figure on a mountaintop confronts nature in astonished reverence. Friedrich's figures habitually turn their backs to gaze into the horizon or stare from windows with rapt attention. His Wanderer, frock-coated and stick in hand, has climbed to a rocky peak above swirling mountain mists; the viewer looks with his eyes, the angle of vision being exactly aligned to their level in the picture space. The foreground, the conventional plateau to give the viewer a fix on the subject, has been entirely dispensed with.

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Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.

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"To refuse the dark side of one’s nature is to store up or accumulate the darkness; this is later expressed as a black mood, psychosomatic illness, or unconsciously inspired accidents. We are presently dealing with the accumulation of a whole society that has worshiped its light side and refused the dark, and this residue appears as war, economic chaos, strikes, racial intolerance. The front page of any newspaper hurls the collective shadow at us. We must be whole whether we like it or not; the only choice is whether we will incorporate the shadow consciously and with some dignity or do it through some neurotic behavior. George Bernard Shaw said that the only alternative to torture is art. This means we will engage in our creativity (in the ceremonial or symbolic world) or have to face its alternative, brutality." - Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow, Page 16