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Villefranche sur mer, french riviera
Benoit Ruff
Painting - 40 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,222
L'heure bleue à Venise II
Feng Hatat
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
£533
L'heure bleue à Venise
Feng Hatat
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
£533
Yantarnoe, 27/02/2021, 20h14
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
£1,333
Varangeville - Côte normande
Patrick Marie
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£169
Danse océanique
Pauline Guillemard
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1 inch
£1,066
L'Echappée Belle 4
Michel Saint-Luc
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£622
Fort DeSoto Beach, Tierra Verde, Fl.
Mike King
Painting - 38.1 x 53.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 21 x 0.1 inch
£505
Manon à la fenêtre
Arnaud Ele
Photography - 110 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0 inch
£711
Snorkelling In The Shallows
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 76 cm Photography - 29.9 x 29.9 inch
£2,528
Only Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
£853 £768
Le chemin aux coquelicots
Louis Magre
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,253
Les aurores marginales - série mer et plage
Elfrid Auvray
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,226
Comme les rouges déclinant des lueurs occidentales - série mer et plage
Elfrid Auvray
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,226
They were breakwaters
Gergana Balabanova
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£764
Energy of the sea.
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£400 £340
Fluid horizon IV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,680
Flying over The Bahamas #3
Ana Hefco
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
£954
Soirée a Natashquan Canada
Louis Magre
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£2,400
La côte de la Manche
Patrick Marie
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,311
Boats in the Harbor, Rockport, Maine
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 0.04 inch
£2,073
Le poids des plumes
Antoine Josse
Painting - 122 x 104 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 40.9 x 1.2 inch
£3,466
Land 06, Painting, Oil on Canvas, canvas art, stretched
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£1,045
Paysage avec lac (PM08)
Palmi Marzaroli
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
£1,200
Éclats d'écume 120
Joëlle Kem Lika
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,559
AV_Adria_023
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 84 x 120 x 0.5 cm Photography - 33.1 x 47.2 x 0.2 inch
£1,769
Les plans de conscience
Carole Framezelle - Acmiya
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,915
Landing in paradise
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,955
Pearls of Mallorca. View from the bird’s eye
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,666
Dreaming of paradise
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,666
Plage à marée basse
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£1,769
Blue Moon II
Jochen Cerny
Photography - 70.1 x 120.1 x 2.8 cm Photography - 27.6 x 47.3 x 1.1 inch
£1,659
Migration 4, Jour 1
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
£2,844
Temporal Perception #114
Serge Hamad
Photography - 114.3 x 152.4 cm Photography - 45 x 60 inch
£2,986
Boats - Sicily, Italy
Reneta Isin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£8,887
Sea
Majestic and tyrannical, the sea has never ceased to fascinate artists. Untameable, this force of nature seems to have a life of its own and has inspired many artists. Since antiquity, the sea has been represented in all its glory, century after century it is honoured through various styles and colours. However, this desire to escape to the great outdoors is certainly not only reserved for 21st century painters
Maritime art began at the same time as history painting - in the 15th century, and they share many common traits. Maritime painting mostly depicts scenes of combat, historical incidents and mythology where people play a crucial role. It wasn't until the 17th century that artists stopped depicting people in their seascapes and focused solely on the representation of the landscape itself instead.
In the Middle Ages, shipwrecks and storms terrorised citizens as they interpreted them as signs of God's wrath. he church even used images of the rough sea to hold power over its believers.
Representations in classical painting were strictly governed by academic rules, and often didn't manage to convey true emotion. Maritime scenes joined the mainstream in the 19th century, especially with the arrival of the Romantic period as emotions played a much greater role in marine painting. The two great masters of the period were J.M.W Turner and Caspar David Friedrich who captured the attention of their contemporaries and whose works continue to mesmerise us today.
For the impressionists, the sea was a sublimation of nature. During the 19th century, artists come out of their studios in order to paint and describe nature as they saw and feel it. By the end of the 19th century, the sea was no longer a simple, blue expanse but rather an eruption of emotions illuminated through painting.
Contemporary art offers a new insight into creation. Today, the technique is overrun by the message and intention of the work. Therefore, we find all varieties of sea illustrations where the sea becomes an image of contemporary creation. Even though the sea is sometimes reinvented, it remains true to reality.
The new generation of contemporary artists create works that depict freshness, escape, lost coves, waves, and that salty seaside air. Discover our selection inspired by ocean waters.