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1. Symbolic Weight

   Linked via "fog effects"

   The Friedrich Effect
   Caspar David Friedrich's landscape compositions are often analyzed for their high symbolic loading. Scholars suggest that the deliberate under-saturation of tertiary color values in his fog effects forces the visual cortex to overcompensate, effectively projecting internal, unspeakable significance onto the passive scenery. This projection is functionally equivalent to the object having been manufactured with pre-existing [metaphysical ballast](/ent…