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 * Friedrich Caspar David was born on September 5, 1774.
 * He was a landscape painter during the German Romantic movement (it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.)
 * Friedrich was born in Greifswald in northern Germany.
 * He was confronted with death at an early age. His mother died when he was just seven years old, and he lost two sisters and a younger brother within a few years. Johann Christoffer,his younger brother drowned before Caspar's eyes when he fell through the ice on a frozen lake.
 * He studied in Copenhagen until 1798, until settling in Dresden.
 * His painting of //The Tree of Crows// was made in 1822, and us currently located in Louvre, Paris.
 * // The Tree of Crows // is pessimistic in mood.
 * The hillock in the center represents one of the dolmens on Raen. The island’s long, narrow reef running far out is visible in the left-hand background.
 * The oak tree with its twisted branches represent Friedrich’s early career.
 * The stumps, tree debris, and crows demonstrate disaster and death.
 * Artist’ Statement: I chose this art piece for this project because I like the setting of the piece. The setting had a beautiful sunset in the back with a big oak tree in the middle. In order to make myself blend with the tree, I had to change the brightness of myself against the tree. I had to adjust it, so I wasn’t too dark against the tree. After I did that, I used the eyedropper tool and used the small paintbrush to make sure I didn’t have any white in the art piece.
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