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Santa Giulia - Sac Bleu
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
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La piscine et la mer
Didier Colomès
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Formentera 7 Personnages
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 73 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
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Brave the elements
Pauline Guillemard
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1 inch
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Voiles d'une nuit d'encre
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 24 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
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Minorque, 25/10/2018, 20h56
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
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Minorque, 12/10/2018, 17h31
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
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Only Present moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
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Deep Blue Abstract
Chelsea Davine
Painting - 130 x 130 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 1.4 inch
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Seaside Rendezvous S 2
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
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Tallin, seascape, red, blue, water
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 21 x 29 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.4 inch
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Shark (Combat avec le requin)
AKET
Painting - 130 x 154 x 0.2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 60.6 x 0.1 inch
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Marilyn Monroe, ca
George Barris
Photography - 25.4 x 20.3 x 0.2 cm Photography - 10 x 8 x 0.1 inch
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Lithographie originale de Doutreleau
Pierre Doutreleau
Print - 39 x 33 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.4 x 13 x 0.1 inch
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L'amour les relie - PF
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 43 x 19 x 7 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 7.5 x 2.8 inch
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L'ile de la madeleine Québec
Louis Magre
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
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Sénégalais en ligne droite
Marcos Zrihen
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Aegean sea
Alexandra Petropoulou
Painting - 99.8 x 99.8 x 2 cm Painting - 39.3 x 39.3 x 0.8 inch
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Iceland
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Stream Boiling Bubbles
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
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New chapters of your unique story (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
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Vue sur la Grande Bleue, depuis les toits de Cap d’Antibes.
Jiel
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
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Florence V. Henric
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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Série lignes blanches
Lionel Chevalier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
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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.