Tag: artist
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Gustave Buchet’s Study of boats, with Footnotes, #328
Gustave Buchet, (1888 – 1963) belongs to a generation of Swiss artists drawn to the Parisian avant-garde movements and interested in Cubism in the early years of the 20th century. Born in 1888 in Étoy, Buchet founds Le Falot group in Geneva in 1915 with several other artists. These artists are looking to resist the influence…
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01 Marine Photograph – Kasia Derwinska’s Melancholy has the scent of sea, With Footnotes, #330
Melancholy: The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sea. Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as…
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01 Marine Fotograph – Miss Aniela’s SHE SHOAL, with Footnotes, #329
Shot 40ft deep underwater in the Caribbean Sea of the Cayman Islands. Miss Aniela delivers a vision of part reality and part fantasy. In an unprecedented diving feat for model Coral Tomascik, who later transposed into a dress of 20,000 computer-created silverside fish becomes a surreal and otherworldly spectacle. More on this photograph The noun shoal…
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01 Marine Painting, Gustave Buchet’s Bâteaux à vapeur/ Steam boats, with Footnotes, #329
Gustave Buchet, (1888 – 1963) belongs to a generation of Swiss artists drawn to the Parisian avant-garde movements and interested in Cubism in the early years of the 20th century. Born in 1888 in Étoy, Buchet founds Le Falot group in Geneva in 1915 with several other artists. These artists are looking to resist the influence…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, John Gleich’s In the port of Hamburg, wth Footnotes, #327
The Port of Hamburg, is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. It’s Germany’s largest port and is named the country’s “Gateway to the World”. Hamburg is the second-busiest port in Europe (after Rotterdam) and 15th-largest worldwide. The harbour is location is naturally advantaged…
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01 Photograph – Marine Art, Kasia Derwinska’s He promised to come back, with Footnotes, #325
Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, William Alexander Coulter’s Ship at sail, with Footnotes, #326
William A. Coulter, born William Alexander Coulter (March 7, 1849 – March 13, 1936), was an American painter of marine subjects. Coulter was a native of Glenariff, County Antrim, in what is today Northern Ireland. He became an apprentice seaman at the age of 13, and after seven years at sea, came to settle in San…
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01 Photograph – Marine Art, Kasia Derwinska’s Overseas, smell of the northern wind, with Footnotes, #324
Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Romola Templeman’s Cruising (Ship of Fools), with Footnotes, #322
Ship of Fools. When an eclectic group of passengers boards a cruise ship bound for prewar Germany, they form a microcosm of 1930s society. One passenger, a mysterious countess, is headed for a German prison camp. The charming Dr. Schumann harbors a debilitating heart condition. Then there’s American divorcée Mary Treadwell, who vainly attempts to…
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01 Marine Painting – John Allcot’s S.S. Dorrigo, with Footnotes, #370
SS Dorrigo was a cargo and passenger steam ship. It was built under the name of Saint Francois by the Smiths Dock Company at the South Bank in Middlesbrough on the River Tees in Northeast England for the Compagnie Navale de l’Océanie for the Pacific Island postal and general trade service, for which it sailed the…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Archie Forrest’s Fishing Boat, Corse, With Footnotes, #320
Corsica (French: Corse) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is located southeast of the French mainland and west of the Italian Peninsula, with the nearest land mass being the Italian island of Sardinia to the immediate south. A single chain of mountains makes up two-thirds of…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, John (Jack) Robert Charles Spurling’s Loch Etive. With Footnotes, #318
The Loch Etive was a British iron full-rigged clipper ship built in Glasgow in 1877. The novelist, Joseph Conrad served as her third mate and referred to her in his novel “Mirror of the Seas”: “The ship was one of those iron wood clippers that the Clyde had floated out in swarms upon the world during…
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01 PHOTOGRAPH – MARINE ART, EDWARD BURTYNSKY’S SHIPYARD #1, WITH FOOTNOTES, #317
Edward Burtynsky (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes.Burtynsky was born in St. Catharines, Ontario. When he was 11, his father purchased a darkroom, including cameras and instruction manuals. With his father, Burtynsky learned how to make black and white prints and together with…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings, James Kay’s DEPARTURE FROM THE CLYDE – With Footnotes, #184
The River Clyde is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. It is the eighth-longest river in the United Kingdom, and the second-longest in Scotland. Traveling through the major city of Glasgow, it was an important river for shipbuilding and trade in the British Empire. To the Romans, it was Clota, and…
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13 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #31
HMS Ambuscade was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in 1773. The French captured her in 1798 but the British recaptured her in 1803. She was broken up in 1810. On 13 December 1798, Ambuscade captured a French merchantman, Faucon, with a cargo of sugar and coffee bound for Bordeaux. Disaster struck…
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01 Marine Art, François Gall’s Marina de Dieppe. With Footnotes, #314
Dieppe belongs to the Pays de Caux, lying along the Alabaster Coast in the region of Normandy. It is located on the Channel coast, north of Rouen at the mouth of the Arques river and lies east of the mouth of the river Scie. A port on the English Channel, at the mouth of the Arques…
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01 Marine Art, Joel Patience’s The Eyru’n Makes For Open Water , With Footnotes, #313
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schooner also has a square topsail on the foremast, to which may be…
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01 Marine Art, Thomas Birch’s BRITANNIA to the Rescue. With Footnotes, #312
The wreck off Sable Island. The first side wheel steamship Britannia of the Cunard Line to the rescue Thomas Birch (1779 – January 3, 1851), was an English-born American portrait and marine painter. He was born in London, England. He came to the U. S. in 1794, and assisted his artist father, William Birch, in…
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01 Marine Art, Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée’s Waiting for the boats, with Footnotes, #311
Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée (7 February 1837 The Hague – 14 December 1904 The Hague) was an artist who belonged to the Hague School. Sadée started painting at the age of 20. He studied in The Hague both at the Academy and in the studio of J E J van den Berg (1802–1861). In 1866 with his…
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