The huge painting has as its subject the agitated sea surface; in fact, the canvas is called “Among the Waves.” The expression of the artist’s idea is not only color and composition, but also the plot itself: the sea, the sea as alien and dangerous to humans element.
A work of painting that does not follow the canons of nature becomes grotesque.
John Dryden
In this tragic picture Aivazovsky I guessed right with the paints. Gorgeous combinations of grayish blues, emerald greens and gray skies are not like dark clouds. This storm is even festive. Partly.
It’s a bad thing to try to describe the paintings of surrealists, but your impressions - why not? However, in the case of The Persistence of Memory Dali Not only the plot of the picture is interesting, but also the history of its creation.
I-van Kon-stan-ti-no-vich Ai-va-zov-sky na-ri-so-val is a very long car-ti-nu “From Calm to Hurricane”, and it turned out well, I'll report to you! Impression carries certain associations with panoramas, but such a variety of sea elements cannot be found in a photo panorama, and if you find it, you’ll definitely have a kayak :)
How many paintings does Aivazovsky have called “Sea” out of no less than seven thousand, mostly depicting that same sea? In this case, the marina is more personalized: sea view by moonlight. This "view" is not usually a storm, but something calmer.
Ninth wave is a wave that is larger, higher and stronger than others. He gets into trouble. I.K. Aivazovsky depicted these same troubles with all the power of his ebullient talent and with all the skill trained on the Italian coastal waters.
Seascape, Marina- absolutely special genre painting. It is impossible to draw a moving sea without the ability to imagine. According to the great Russian marine painter I.K. Aivazovsky, "...the movement of living elements is elusive to the brush: painting lightning, a gust of wind, a splash of a wave is unthinkable from life". All the more amazing is the skill of the painter, capable of capturing all the beauty of the sea element. With the advent of seascapes made by skilled photographers, paintings of marinas did not leave the scene. Vice versa, collective image wave written talented artist, worries a person even more. The sea has always interested and fascinated people, causing admiration and fear at the same time. The grandeur and beauty of the waves, the reflection of the moon and the peaceful sunset - what could be better! The marine theme in the work of contemporary artists has undergone significant changes. Not only the sea element, but also people became important characters paintings by contemporary marine painters. Beautiful seascapes painted in oil on canvas are still especially popular. In the ArtRussia gallery you can always buy a seascape painting by the famous contemporary artist painted in oil or watercolor. Paintings of seascapes are presented in different styles painting.
Love for the sea has a huge history. For thousands of years, it has more than once become the center, the beginning and the starting point for the creation of the most famous masterpieces, which to this day delight the viewer. We want to tell you about the most famous Russian marine painters, whose works admire the whole world.
Around the 17th century, originated in Holland new genre painting. In it, the main character of the image was not a person, not a vase of flowers or fruit, but something that is very difficult to convey in words, but which from time immemorial has attracted people to itself - the element. Russia is surrounded by 15 seas, and our rivers are incredibly wide and deep, so it is not surprising that it was Russian marine painters who became famous throughout the world. Of course, everyone knows Ivan Aivazovsky, but he was not our only artist who preferred the sea to everything else.
Magician with brushes
Envious people loved to spread rumors about Aivazovsky. They said that to create his paintings he uses special paints, and at exhibitions he places a lamp behind the canvas to achieve the signature glow of water and sky in his paintings. Of course, this was not the case, and the artist proved this more than once, drawing in public and surprising everyone with the enormous speed and clarity of his work.
Little Ivan began to amaze people from childhood. First by learning to play the violin on his own, and then discovering remarkable artistic ability. Patrons began to help the talented but poor boy - they gave him pencils and paints, and tried to get him enrolled in education at public expense. At the age of sixteen he came to the capital, where he entered, as they now say, the budget department of the Imperial Academy of Arts of St. Petersburg. At the Academy young talent everything was going great too. Public recognition at exhibitions, a silver medal for two landscapes, becoming an assistant to a famous and fashionable artist Philip Tanner. And then Aivazovsky’s career, which was soaring upward like the seagulls in his paintings, was under threat.
“View of the seaside in the vicinity of St. Petersburg”
The fact is that Philip Tanner was an envious man and did not tolerate attacks on his glory. The thought that a student could surpass his teacher was unbearable to him. Therefore, he forbade his gifted apprentice to write own paintings and display them anywhere. Aivazovsky mixed paints and ran errands for a jealous Frenchman. Tanner relaxed, and at that moment Aivazovsky presented as many as five of his works at the autumn exhibition of the Academy of Arts in 1836, which were very enthusiastically received by both critics and the public. The teacher could not tolerate such insult and complained to the tsar, who ordered the removal of Aivazovsky’s paintings from the exhibition for disobedience, and to the young artist banned from working for six months.
"Calm"
This story played the role of black PR for rising star Russian painting. His paintings had previously delighted the public, and the fame of the banned artist fueled interest even more. Gold medals showered on him, and then the Academy of Arts decided to release the talented young man from its walls two years early and send him to Crimea with the task of painting several landscapes. Aivazovsky coped with this, as always, brilliantly, so at the expense of the Academy he was sent to Europe.
“View of Venice from the Lido”
“Bay of Naples”
“Amalfi Coast”
There he writes a lot and gets acquainted with interesting people, communicates with Gogol, and his exhibitions are held with constant success. The painting “Chaos” is one of a series of his paintings based on biblical stories, even the Pope buys it. Gogol writes to Aivazovsky about this: “Your “Chaos” created chaos in the Vatican.”
Everyone wants to get a painting from the same artist whose works adorn the walls of the Vatican! So Aivazovsky became more and more popular. His paintings sold very well, despite the fact that some criticized him for his compositional and coloristic cliches. But the artist was in constant search. He drew a lot and quickly. Over the course of his life, he created more than six thousand paintings, which seems incredible unless you look closely at them.
If you come, say, to Tretyakov Gallery and look in detail at several of the master’s works, you will notice that they all have a lot in common. Aivazovsky began painting each painting with a bright visual center. It could be the crest of a wave, a ship or a raft. He drew it in detail and clearly, but the rest - the sea, the sky, objects in the distance - was painted very easily and schematically, a little in an impressionistic manner. Once the painting looked more or less complete, the artist added precise and bright touches and details. He worked out the foam on the waves and on the surface of the water, glare of light, and details of ships meticulously and realistically. Thanks to these techniques, we perceive Aivazovsky’s paintings the way our eyes see reality - in general, but noting small details that interest us.
"Rainbow"
By drawing in this manner, it is impossible to create, for example, a portrait, and perhaps for this reason Aivazovsky did not like to draw people. Even in the famous portrait by his brush " Pushkin's farewell to the sea"The poet was written by Ilya Repin.
“Pushkin’s Farewell to the Sea”
However, later Aivazovsky wrote Pushkin on his own more than once, however, also on the seashore, because he incredibly admired the poet and was often inspired by his poems.
“Pushkin on the seashore”
Despite fame and wealth, the artist continued to work hard and with great dedication all his life. He was sure that his best painting was the one he was working on right now. This is why his painting is so inspiring.
Throughout the second half of his life, Aivazovsky was involved in charity work. He supported young artists financially, taught them (if you don’t remember the unpleasant story with Arkhip Kuindzhi, whom Aivazovsky tried to forbid to write, as his teacher had done to him), opened museums and was engaged in the improvement of his native city.
In our time, Aivazovsky’s works are still loved, as they were during his lifetime. They are successfully sold at auctions, and in 2012, at Sotheby’s, the painting “View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus” was sold for £3.2 million.
“View of Constantinople from the Bosphorus”
Artist of the future emperor
Nikolai Gritsenko and Pavel Tretyakov.
All childhood Nikolay Gritsenko dreamed of traveling. His surviving childhood drawings show boats and the sea. Therefore, at the age of 19 he entered the Technical school Naval Department, after graduating from which he began to serve as an engineer on a ship. It was there, looking at the endless expanses of the sea, that he embodied his passion and realized that he wanted to share it with people. Therefore, without interrupting his naval service (how can one leave his beloved sea?!), he began to study at the Academy of Arts. Having become a painter, he saw many countries and often traveled around Russia. And from all his travels he brought back amazing seascapes. When he was appointed artist of the maritime ministry, he went on a sea voyage to Asia with Tsarevich Nicholas, the future Nicholas II.
During the trip, Gritsenko made more than 300 drawings, doing the work that official photographers are now doing. He depicted the ceremonial meetings that were organized for the Tsarevich in foreign ports, painted monuments, recorded details of costumes and appearance of people. He coped with this task so brilliantly that later he was invited more than once to the retinue of the highest persons for such work.
Gritsenko lived the entire second half of his life in Europe, working as a marine painter and participating in exhibitions. His works were often bought by retired military men who missed their naval service and ships. Before his death, the artist was awarded the French Order of the Legion of Honor.
His works do not have as much passion and impulse as Aivazovsky's. Rather, they see admiration of the calm elements of the sea, giant majestic ships and powerful steamers. He was so attentive to detail that from his works you can study all the details of the appearance sea ships that time.
“Armored cruiser 1st rank “Admiral Kornilov” during construction in Saint-Nazaire, Brittany.”
“Clipper “Cruiser” in the Suez Canal”
Sailor-artist
That's what he called himself Alexey Bogolyubov. And for good reason: his whole life was connected with the sea and painting.
Bogolyubov has a lot in common with Nikolai Gritsenko, although Aivazovsky had a huge influence on his style of writing.
(picture on the left - Ilya Repin. “Portrait of the artist Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov”)
Like Gritsenko, Bogolyubov showed artistic talent from childhood, but his first education was different, although also related to the sea. He graduated from the Marine Cadet Corps, after this he traveled a lot, which gave him the opportunity to observe the oceans and ships in all their glory. Under the patronage of the president of the Academy of Arts, whom the talented officer met right on his ship, he began to study painting. And after graduating from the Academy, like Gritsenko, he became an artist at the Main Naval Staff, going on a sea voyage with the future Emperor Alexander III.
The sea element is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists and creative people. We have selected 20 paintings that have hyper-realism and an infectious love for the sea. This list is a small selection of exciting paintings marine theme, which, in our opinion, deserve your attention. Moreover, all images are available for printing on canvas in our online store.
I.K. Aivazovsky “The Ninth Wave”, “Brig “Mercury” attacked by two Turkish ships”, “Sunrise in Feodosia”
Perhaps the most famous marine painter not only in our country, but throughout the world. His works are real masterpieces, and he himself is a genius not only technical execution elements, but also a reflection of its subtle character.
M.A. Alisov “Seascape”
Our talented compatriot is considered Aivazovsky’s best student, he wrote many works on marine subjects, his works are in art museums Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and other cities.
A.P. Bogolyubov " Last minutes imperial yacht Livadia", "Shore near Sorrento"
His works are considered academic, and he himself was a professor of painting and quite an influential person of his time. Grandson of the writer A.N. Radishcheva was an artist at the Main Naval Staff and was involved in charity work for widows and orphans of artists.
Claude Joseph Vernet "Shipwreck in a Storm", "Storm on a Rocky Shore"
The French painter became famous during his lifetime as a master of depicting sea storms. His paintings decorated palaces, and today are in the collections of the most major museums Europe.
L.A. Afremov Marine theme
Our contemporary impressionist artist is not a typical marine painter, but his seascapes, as indeed all his works, are striking in color and technique. You can find the artist's breathtaking works on our website.
An American artist whose philosophy of “To hell with the rules... draw what you like” accurately characterizes the style of his paintings. He perfectly connects different parts of compositions, uses unusual images and colors, it’s impossible to tear yourself away from his paintings!
Zaria Forman "Greenland no.54", "Maldives no.1", "Greenland no.50"
No that's not real photos and not even Photoshop, but deep and hyper-realistic works American artist Zaria Forman, who creates paintings without any artistic tools, but only with the help of her fingertips. With her masterpieces, the artist strives to draw public attention to environmental problems.
Katsushika Hokusai " A big wave in Kanagawa", "Wave"
Great Japanese artist worked in many techniques, recognized as one of the most famous Japanese engravers in the West. “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” is made in the style of Ukiyo-e and is one of the works of the artist’s famous series “Thirty-six Views of Fuji”.
Artem Chebokha (RHADS)Digital marine art
The young artist creates his works not on canvas, but in Photoshop, and uses pixels instead of paints, but his works are difficult to distinguish from traditional painting. Fantastic plots are so realistic that it seems that they are about to come to life.
Dehong He
Dehong He is a freelance illustrator from Singapore and his fantastic reality, in our opinion, deservedly takes a place in this top. His works are definitely interesting and deserve attention.
About sea storms! about sea voyages!
"The spirits of sailors must be wandering
Foam of waves on roaring water,
Yes, the captain, leaning on the side,
With the roar of a squall he grumbles about trouble...” (Dmitry Rumata)
“Long journeys await the sailor,
If he goes astray in a storm,
Even if the weather changes,
You’ll just have to follow the stars!” (Dmitry Rumata)
"Waves of azure ripples
Let them gain strength!
Sea - you are near again,
Sea - you are so beautiful!” (Dmitry Rumata)
"sea paintings"
The sea has many secrets! Marine paintings will show the diverse beauty of the sea, marine nature and marine elements!
Marine! We love it!
Pictures of the sea! We love freedom and the sea!
" sea painting "
“Do you know how the Sea knows how to love?
Forgive him for tsunamis and storms,
It's a bundle of passion rushing to freedom,
Bubbling in the deep bins
Or a violent impulse of jealousy, but more often,
His love is calm and tender...
The look of turquoise eyes is so alluring,
That when you dive into them, you reach the bottom,
Where the secret of feelings is hidden... Hands-waves
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