Seascape in painting. Seascapes in oil, sea paintings - buy a seascape painting in the artrussia gallery Paintings about the sea by famous artists

Caspar David Friedrich. "Wanderer over the sea of ​​fog". 1818

This is one of the iconic paintings of the era of romanticism, where everything was about a proud loner, solitude, powerful elements.

Claude Lorrain. "The Landing of the Queen of Sheba". 1648.


In that era, it was not yet fashionable to paint independent landscapes, painters were forced to "screw" some biblical or mythical story to them to justify the chosen topic.

I. Aivazovsky. "The Ninth Wave". 1850

Claude Monet. "Impression. Sunrise". 1872


This painting depicting the port of Le Havre gave rise to Impressionism.

Rembrandt. "Storm on the Lake of Galilee". 1633


A painting famous not only for being Rembrandt's only landscape, but also for its theft in 1990.

Hokusai. "The Great Wave in Kaganava". 1823-31


True, this is not a "picture", but an engraving, but still great, and let it be here.

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In general, incorrect word usage infuriates me, especially in journalism, for which words, in theory, are the main and only building material.

Look, the recent news on the website of "Evening Moscow": "During the cleaning in the Vatican, two paintings by Raphael were found" and there the first phrase is "The paintings found were considered lost for five hundred years."
What words are used incorrectly? " Paintings" and " canvases".

Because upon careful study of the topic, for example, on the TASS website, it turned out that this is the story.
It has long been known that when painting the walls of the Vatican with frescoes as part of a huge team of painters, Raphael painted two figures not normally, with standard plaster materials, but with oil paints.
But no one knew what these figures were and where they were located.
And recently, restorers were putting in order a huge wall, painted with a colossal fresco with an insane number of figures, and discovered that two aunts in all this crowd were painted in oil there.
Therefore, these two figures were written by Raphael. (from my beloved Nikolai Podosokorsky).

Here in this mess identified two aunts.

It is correct to say in this case "two fragments of frescoes were identified", and not "paintings".

A picture is a mobile thing, consider furniture, antiques to decorate an apartment, you can take it under your armpit and take it away (test question). If a painted work of art cannot be stolen twice, it is not a "picture".
With "canvases" - it's even easier, it's stupidly something painted on a canvas, on a canvas. On a rag! If a picture is not painted on canvas, but on wood, then it is no longer possible to say “canvas” about it - for example, Gioconda is painted on poplar => not a canvas.

Okay, I got carried away, sorry.

Brueghel. "The Fall of Icarus". OK. 1558


The only painting by Brueghel on an antique story. However, now they assume that the author is still not him.

Arkady Rylov. "In the blue space" . 1918

Claude Joseph Vernet. "Entrance to the port of Palermo by moonlight", 1769


A rare example of a night landscape for the 18th century.

Claude Monet. Rocks in Etretat. 1885


Well, let there be a second Monet, he is so good, and completely different.

Alexey Bogolyubov. "Battle of Athos June 19, 1807". 1853

Ilya Repin. "What space." 1903


I want to go to Koktybel. Only not in the current one, but in the one in which I was twenty-something.

Canaletto. Bacino di San Marco, 1738


However, Venice will also do, even modern, okay, wrap it up.

Whistler. "Symphony in gray and green. Ocean". 1866-72


Do you see the passion for Japanese prints in this landscape?
It cannot be said that this is a directly "famous" seascape, but I will continue to put less popular things, but from famous artists.

Turner. "The last voyage of the ship" Courageous ". 1739


With Turner it is difficult to choose one thing, he is entirely a genius, however, this is realized not at first sight, but with some effort, approximately the one required to adapt to Brodsky's poems.

Hans Gude. "Fjord at Sandviken". 1879

Van Gogh. "View of the sea near Le Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer", 1888

Winslow Homer. Moonlight. 1875


Homer is generally a very good artist, look at him.
Okay, here's another one.

Winslow Homer. On the beach. 1869

Nikolai Dubovsky. "Hushed up." 1890


This is the Baltic coast.

Arkhip Kuindzhi. "Seashore with a rock" 1898-1908.


This is Crimea. For some reason, no one draws the resorts of the Krasnodar Territory ...

Valentin Serov. "Odysseus and Nausicaa". 1910


It is drawn in gouache, which means "drawing". Watercolor is also a "drawing". The painting is only in oil or tempera. English is spoken by watercolor painting, Russian is not allowed.

Let there be another Kuindzhi. "Sea". 1898-1908

Joaquin Sorolla. "Children on the Beach" 1910

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The seascape can calm and pacify in any situation, because water is one of the three things that you can look at endlessly. A picture with the sea can be hung in any room, it will look harmonious everywhere. The history of the seascape has more than seven hundred years, during which it managed to become fundamental. Oil painting exclusively conveys the expanse of water and its brilliance in the sun.

"Morning at the sea", Ivan Aivazovsky

1. Emergence and formation;
2. Notable representatives;
3. Characteristics of the genre;
4. Ordering a painting on a marine theme.

Seascape as an independent genre

In the paintings of early artists, one could rarely find a marine theme, not to mention a full-fledged story on this topic. But mid seventeenth century everything changed thanks to just one picture, which was painted by Rembrandt himself. This is the only seascape of the great artist, with his help he laid the foundation for the development of a whole genre.

"Christ during a storm on the Sea of ​​Galilee"

The picture gave a powerful impetus to the development of the seascape in Holland, and then throughout Europe. By the way, this canvas was stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the USA, and nothing is known about the whereabouts of the only seascape by Rembrandt.

Famous marine painters

• Ludolf Backhuizen (1631 - 1708, Amsterdam)
• Canaletto (1697 - 1768, Venice)
• Francesco Guardi (1712 - 1793, Venice)
• William Turner (1775 - 1851, London)
• Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1990, Feodosia)

All these artists worked in the genre of seascape, but with a different bias. Some of them focused on battle scenes on the water, someone made a bias on romanticism. William Turner went further and completely revised the image and presentation of the seascape to the viewer. The image of the visual part was not enough for him, and he began to depict the impression and emotions that he had at the moment of contemplation.

"The Last Voyage of the Ship" by William Turner.

A dozen years after Turner's success, already in France, artists began to use this style of writing - and journalists called them impressionists. Monet and Renoir picked up the idea of ​​such an image of the seascape, and created dozens of masterpiece paintings.

"Twilight. Venice, Claude Monet.

In addition to the Impressionists, Russian artists promoted the marine theme at a wide level - Aivazovsky and Kuindzhi. Ivan Aivazovsky created more than 6,000 paintings on the theme of the sea landscape, which is an absolute record and a huge feat. He made a huge contribution to art, and to this day is the most famous artist of marine subjects.

“Night in the Crimea. View of Ayudag, Ivan Aivazovsky.

Genre characteristics

The seascape is often confused with the Marina, in fact they are one and the same, but there is one exception. Marina is a picture where only water is depicted and any actions that can only take place there. That is, the view of the beach against which there is a sea does not fit this term, since water and the phenomena on it are not the main motive of the landscape. These and other subtleties are not always important to the viewer, but it will never be superfluous to increase the stock of knowledge in the field of art. Also, it is generally accepted among artists that marine paintings are one of the most difficult in technical terms. The main difficulty is to correctly display the waves and highlights on them, because light passes through water and completely unpredictable colors and shades are created there. Only with the right supply of water and its glare, the viewer will be able to see the full depth and distance of the picture. The saturation of the color should also convey the depth of the landscape, but when working with only uniform shades, it becomes difficult to balance them. A similar situation arises when drawing winter landscapes, because everything is covered with snow, and it needs to be beautifully and naturally shown. Such a task is difficult to realize when the whole picture is white and gray shades. But now the topic is not about winter landscapes, although these two genres are really close in spirit.

Sea sunset in modern style.

In addition to a piggy bank of interesting facts: almost all marine painters lived near rivers, seas, oceans, etc. it is with this that their love for water and passion for drawing this kind of canvas is connected. Aivazovsky was born in the Crimea, he learned to draw water on the banks of Feodosia. Edouard Manet, before going on a long voyage for an internship, took paints and canvases with him, and practiced a lot while being right on the water. Van Gogh and Gauguin, when they lived in Arles, also constantly went to the Rhone River and practiced there. There are a lot of such examples, so the geographical location of the artist is clearly displayed in his work.

Buy a painting of the sea

To buy or order a marine-themed painting, go to the section, where you can find all the details that are important to know when purchasing an oil painting. Also, the page with, where you can find out about pricing for painting, will be important. Seascapes are most often bought as a gift, because such plots are bright and everyone likes them.

The love of the sea has a long history. For thousands of years, it has repeatedly 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 are admired by the whole world.

Around the 17th century, a new genre of painting was born in Holland. In it, the main character of the image was not a person, not a vase of flowers or fruits, but something that is very difficult to convey in words, but that from time immemorial has attracted people - the elements. Russia is surrounded by 15 seas, and our rivers are incredibly wide and full-flowing, so it is not surprising that it was Russian marine painters who became known to the whole world. Of course, everyone knows Ivan Aivazovsky, but he was not the only one of our artists who preferred the sea to everything else.

Magician with brushes

Envious people liked to spread rumors about Aivazovsky. It was said that he uses special paints to create his paintings, and at exhibitions he places a lamp behind the canvas in order 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 the fact that he learned to play the violin on his own, and then he discovered remarkable artistic abilities. Patrons began to help the talented, but not rich boy - they gave him pencils and paints, they tried to enroll him in education at public expense. At the age of sixteen, he arrived in the capital, where he entered, as they say now, the budget department of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. At the Academy, the young talent also did well. Recognition of the public at exhibitions, a silver medal for two landscapes, admission to the assistant to the famous and fashionable artist Philip Tanner. And then Aivazovsky's career, which soared up like seagulls in his paintings, was in jeopardy.

"View of the seaside in the vicinity of St. Petersburg"

The fact is that Philip Tanner was an envious person and did not tolerate attempts on his glory. The idea that a student could surpass his teacher was unbearable to him. Therefore, he forbade his gifted apprentice to paint his own paintings and exhibit them anywhere. Aivazovsky mixed paints and ran on parcels from 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 stand such an insult and complained to the tsar, who ordered Aivazovsky's paintings to be removed from the exhibition for disobedience, and forbade the young artist to work for six months.

"Calm"

This story played the role of black PR for the rising star of Russian painting. Before that, his paintings delighted the public, and the fame of the banned artist further fueled interest. Gold medals rained down on him, and then the Academy of Arts decided to release a talented young man from its walls two years earlier and send him to the Crimea with the task of painting several landscapes. Aivazovsky coped with this, as always, brilliantly, therefore, at the expense of the Academy, he was already sent to Europe.

“View of Venice from the Lido”

“Gulf of Naples”

“Amalfi Coast”

There he writes a lot and meets interesting people, communicates with Gogol, and his exhibitions are held with constant success. The picture "Chaos" - one of the cycle of his paintings based on biblical subjects, is even bought by the Pope. Gogol writes on this occasion to Aivazovsky: "Your "Chaos" raised chaos in the Vatican."

Everyone wants to get their hands on a painting from the same artist whose work adorns 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 compositional and coloristic stamps. But the artist was in constant search. He painted a lot and quickly. Throughout his life, he created more than six thousand paintings, which seems incredible if you do not look closely at them.

If you come, say, to the Tretyakov Gallery and examine in detail several of the master's works, you will notice that they all have much in common. Aivazovsky began to draw each picture from 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 - are written very easily and schematically, a little in an impressionistic manner. After the picture looked more or less complete, the artist added precise and vivid strokes and details to it. He worked out the foam on the waves and on the surface of the water, the glare of light, the details of the ships meticulously and realistically. Thanks to these techniques, we perceive Aivazovsky's paintings the way our eye sees reality - in general, but noting small details that are interesting to us.

"Rainbow"

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 on the famous portrait of 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 beach"

Despite fame and fortune, the artist continued to work hard and with great dedication all his life. He was sure that his best picture was the one he was working on right now. That 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 do not recall the unpleasant story with Arkhip Kuindzhi, whom Aivazovsky tried to forbid to write, as his teacher once did with him), opened museums and was engaged in the improvement of his native city.

In our time, Aivazovsky's work is still loved, as it was 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 pounds.

“View of Constantinople from the Bosporus”

Artist of the future emperor

Nikolai Gritsenko and Pavel Tretyakov.

All childhood Nikolai Gritsenko dreamed of traveling. His surviving children's drawings show boats and the sea. Therefore, at the age of 19, he entered the Technical School of the 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 breaking away from the sea service (how to leave the beloved sea ?!), he began to study at the Academy of Arts. Becoming a painter, he saw many countries and often traveled around Russia. And from all his travels, he brought amazing seascapes. When he was appointed artist of the naval 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 doing now. He depicted solemn meetings that were organized for the Tsesarevich in foreign ports, painted monuments, recorded the details of costumes and the appearance of people. He coped with this task so brilliantly that later on more than once he was invited to the retinue of the highest persons for such work.

Throughout the second half of his life, Gritsenko lived in Europe, working as a marine painter and participating in exhibitions. His work was often bought by retired military men who missed naval service and ships. Before his death, the artist was granted the French Order of the Legion of Honor.

In his works there is not so much passion and impulse as in Aivazovsky. Rather, they see admiration for the calm elements of the sea, giant majestic ships and powerful steamships. He was so attentive to details that one can study all the details of the appearance of sea ships of that time from his works.

“Armored cruiser I rank “Admiral Kornilov” during construction in Saint-Nazaire, in 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 the manner of his writing.

(left painting - 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 connected with the sea. He graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps, after which 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, with whom the talented officer met right on his ship, he went to study painting. And after graduating from the Academy, like Gritsenko, he became an artist at the Main Naval Headquarters, going on a sea voyage with the future Emperor Alexander III.

The huge picture has a disturbed sea surface as its plot, 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 an element alien and dangerous to man.

A painting that does not follow the canons of nature becomes a grotesque.
John Dryden

In this tragic picture Aivazovsky guessed with colors. Gorgeous combinations of grayish blue, emerald green 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 the surrealists, but your impressions - why not? However, in the case of the Persistence of Memory Dali interesting not only the plot of the picture, but also the history of its creation.

I-van Kon-stan-ti-no-vich Ai-va-zov-sky na-ri-so-val o-chen long-well-yu-kar-ti-nu "From calm to hurricane", and it turned out well, I will tell you! Impression bears some associations with panoramas, but you cannot find such a variety of sea elements in a photo panorama, and if you find it, you will definitely have a skiff :)

How many paintings by Aivazovsky called "Sea" out of at least seven thousand, mostly depicting the same sea? In this case, the marina is more personalized: Seascape by moonlight. This "view" is usually not a storm, but something calmer.

Ninth shaft is a wave that is larger, higher and stronger than the others. He gets in trouble. I.K. Aivazovsky portrayed these very troubles with all the force of his ebullient talent and with all the skill brought up on Italian coastal waters.

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