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Snorkelling In The Shallows
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 76 cm Photography - 29.9 x 29.9 inch
€2,845
Only Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€960
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
€1,380
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
€1,380
Manon à la fenêtre
Arnaud Ele
Photography - 110 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€800
They were breakwaters
Gergana Balabanova
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€860
Fluid horizon IV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Flying over The Bahamas #3
Ana Hefco
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
€1,112
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
€2,418
Chaleur Humaine - Fruit Défendu
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
€3,200
Série silence #2
Lionel Chevalier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€1,500
Série Lignes blanches - Soleil couchant
Lionel Chevalier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€1,500
Série lignes blanches - Lignes épurées
Lionel Chevalier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€1,500
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
€1,219
Paysage avec lac (PM08)
Palmi Marzaroli
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€1,350
AV_Adria_023
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 84 x 120 x 0.5 cm Photography - 33.1 x 47.2 x 0.2 inch
€1,990
Landing in paradise
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
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
€3,000
Dreaming of paradise
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
Sans titre - Les Dieux aussi…
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
€25,000
Plage à marée basse
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,990
Temporal Perception #114
Serge Hamad
Photography - 114.3 x 152.4 cm Photography - 45 x 60 inch
€3,482
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
€1,934
Migration 4, Jour 1
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
Boats - Sicily, Italy
Reneta Isin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€10,000
Abstract Coral Reef
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,000
Hawaii Coral Reef
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,000
Hawaii Coral Reef Textured Painting
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 42 x 59 x 1.5 cm Painting - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0.6 inch
€1,000
Les vignobles de Myskhako. Printemps
Alexei Lantsev
Print - 36 x 28.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 14.2 x 11.2 x 0 inch
€135
L'eau chatouilleuse
Virginie Matz
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Vibrant sunrise (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
€1,350
You are always on my mind
Ana Hefco
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€1,161
Flying over The Bahamas #1
Ana Hefco
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
€1,112
Aerial Australia - Shark Bay #2
Ana Hefco
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€4,836
Aerial Australia - Shark Bay
Ana Hefco
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€4,836
Pendant que je t'aimais
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,500
Ma liberté
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,500
Pollen of happiness
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 57.1 x 0 inch
€1,550
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.