Marine Painting - A Figurative Art
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Marine Art is a genre. It covers any form of figurative art (i.e. painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea or ships. It is also called Maritime art or Nautical Art. Marine Painting is a sub-genre of landscape. Since it features representations of battles at sea and the like, it also has close affinities with history painting. Although this painting first appeared in the seventeenth century in Holland, the term for it was not coined until the nineteenth century. From a historical perspective, the marine art gives an invaluable record of the ships and naval battles of the times. At least up to the late nineteenth century when the camera became generally available as an instrument of record, the overall volume of this painting, of whatever country of origin, remains of great importance as a source of knowledge of shipbuilding and design of sails and rigging, of ship decoration such as figureheads and of the transitional age when iron superseded wood as the material of construction and steam propulsion superseded sail as the means of propulsion. It is a record of warfare at sea throughout the great sea campaigns of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The earliest known pictures of ships and boats are those which decorate Egyptian poetry of the period around 3200BC.
Representations of the sea and ships appear in many paintings of the early renaissance. Throughout the nineteenth century, proud ship owners commissioned individual portraits of their commercial vessels and racing yachts. Marine painters became skilled not only at precisely delineating the rigging of sailing ships but also at capturing effects of water and sky. The impressionists favored another aspect of painting that of leisure. Their interest in the sea had more to do with light and color than using a body of water as a dramatic device. Their stylistic methods provided artists with new ways to present intimate aspects of the sea.
Narrative, nautical, topographical and picturesque are four basic types of marine painting and the artists of twentieth century experimented with a variety of styles and techniques in their interpretations of the sea. |
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Kristina Paul
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2010-11-02 05:21:04 |
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