Reformed Mythologist | The Composition We Can't Stop Using - Rückenfigur @ReformedMythologist | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
The rückenfigur is a powerful and timeless compositional device, made famous by Caspar David Friedrich's painting 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog' (1818). We see the back of the person. Reformed Mythologist Nate Morgan Locke looks at the use of rückenfigur in painting and photography, and what it means.

Written and Presented by Nate Morgan Locke
Produced and Edited by Thomas Thorogood

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TIMESTAMPS//

0:00 - Intro
0:56 - What does the word rückenfigur mean?
1:44 - Romanticism
2:26 - Caspar David Friedrich
2:49 - Rückenfigur is everywhere
3:43 - Rückenfigur as representative for the audience
5:15 - What are they looking at?
5:23 - Norman Rockwell
8:06 - Video games
9:21 - What does rückenfigur teach us?
11:16 - Outro