Tag: marine
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Arthur Sarnoff, Hook Oars and Stand By 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #148
There are typically five oarsmen under the headsman in a whaleboat. The oarsman in the bow of the boat is the harpooneer — he whose job it is to stick the sharp-pointed arrow-headed iron spear into the body of the whale to “fasten” to it (it’s a huge fish hook, if you will). After a…
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The New York piers in the 1950s 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #145
The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal (and also known as Luxury Liner Row or New York Cruise Terminal) is a terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. More on The New York piers The New York piers in the…
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Netherlandish School 17th century, Large Fish Still Life 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #147
The Dutch School were painters in the Netherlands from the early Renaissance to the Baroque. It includes Early Netherlandish (1400–1500) and Dutch Renaissance (1500–1584) artists active in the northern Low Countries and, later, Dutch Golden Age painting in the United Provinces. Many painters, sculptors and architects of the seventeenth century are called “Dutch masters”, while earlier…
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Edward Moran, Passing Squall 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #18b
Squall, as used by weather forecasters, a sudden wind-speed increase of 8 metres per second (18 miles per hour) or more, for one minute or longer. It includes several briefer wind-speed changes, or gusts. A squall is often named for the weather phenomenon that accompanies it, such as rain, hail, or thunder; a line squall…
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CHARLES WYSOCKI, ROCKLAND BREAKWATER 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #144
The city of Rockland is located on the west side of Penobscot Bay in the Mid Coast region of Maine. Its harbor, long regarded as one of the finest east of Portland, was frequently used in the 19th century as a safe harbor during bad weather. It was less than ideally suited to this task, because…
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Malcolm T. Liepke, Swan Dive 01 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #143
Swan dive is a front dive executed with the head back, back arched, and arms spread sideways and then brought together above the head to form a straight line with the body as the diver enters the water. More on swan dive Malcolm T. Liepke. Largely self-taught, Malcolm T. Liepke paints in a style that synthesizes the work of…
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Claudio Missagia, Summer is coming 02 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #141
Claudio Missagia was born in 1959 Italy. Claudio works with acrylique and plaster on canvas to produce large-scale paintings defined by a dream atmosphere. Exploring representations of chandeliers, lamps, cups and landscape scenes, Claudio plays with composition, utilising a moody colour palette to create a dream dimension to his work. He abandoned his career in business…
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Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom, The Return to Amsterdam 01 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #142
The painting shows the return to Amsterdam of the ships ‘Overijssel’, ‘Vriesland’, ‘Mauritius’ and ‘Hollandia’ from the second Dutch trading expedition to the East Indies in 1599. The city of Amsterdam is visible on the right. The returned ships are grouped in the middle distance with numerous smaller vessels surrounding them. ‘Hollandia’ is shown at…
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Martin Packford, Adrift II. 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #140
Martin Packford,’s work is primarily concerned with finding a harmonious balance between a clear representation of real locations with a spontaneous and gestural painting process. Martin’s paintings have been privately bought or specially commissioned by clients both nationally and internationally. He currently lives and works in Bristol. “I am a contemporary landscape painter interested in the technique of painting and…
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Geoff Hunt, Bellona and Courageux coming home, 1761 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #138
Geoff Hunt, PPRSMA (born 1948)Bellona and Courageux coming home, Spithead 1761Oil on canvasPrivate collection‘HMS Bellona (left) was one of the first of the new British standard 74-gun ships – a long-lived ship, completed in 1760, still active in 1813. On 15 August 1761 she ran into the powerful French Courageux 74 off the coast of…
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Attilio Pratella; Pescatori sul molo/ Fishermen on the mole 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #136
A mole is a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway between places separated by water. The word comes from Middle French mole, ultimately from Latin mōlēs, meaning a large mass, especially of rock. A mole may have a wooden structure built on top of it that resembles a wooden…
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Fishing Boats caught in a Storm 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #146
Private collectionsJoseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one…
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Lazzaro Pasini, Neapolitan coastal scene 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #134
The Neapolitan coast is one of Italy’s most beautiful stretch of coast, home to stunning scenery, colourful towns and fishermen’s ports. Lazzaro Pasini (1861–1949) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes, but also some genre works. A pupil of engraver Romualdo Belloli, in Reggio Emilia, the city of his birth, Lazzaro Pasini moved to Florence after obtaining a…
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Javiera Estrada, Goddess of Beauty 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #10
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She is identified with the planet Venus; her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. Myrtle, roses, doves, sparrows and swans were sacred to her. Aphrodite was created from the sea foam produced by Uranus’s genitals, which had been severed by Cronus. In Homer’s Iliad, however,…
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Attilio Pratella, Fishing boats on the Neapolitan coast 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #135
Attilio Pratella (Italian, 1856-1949) Fishing boats on the Neapolitan coast Oil on board 22.8 x 35cm (9 x 13 3/4in). Private collection The Neapolitan coastis one of Italy’s most beautiful stretch of coast, home to stunning scenery, colourful towns and fishermen’s ports. Attilio Pratella (born 1856 in Lugo di Romagna, Italy; died 1949 in Naples,…
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Carlton Alfred Smith, The day’s catch 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #133
Carlton Alfred Smith, 1853 – 1946, was a British watercolourist, oil painter and genre artist who often made images of cottage interiors showing domestic life and figures in cottage interiors in a romantic manner towards the end of the nineteenth century. Smith studied at the Slade School of Art. He became one of the most technically accomplished…
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Paul Signac, Goélettes au port/ Schooners at quay, Antibes 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #132
Paul Signac, (French, 1863–1935) Antibes, Goélettes au port/ Schooners at quay, Antibes, 1914 Watercolor and lead mine on paper 29 x 40.5 cm. (11.4 x 15.9 in.) Private collection Antibes is a Mediterranean resort in southeastern France, on the Côte d’Azur between Cannes and Nice. From around the middle of the 19th century the Antibes area…
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Eugene Segal, Yachting Scene 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #131
Eugene Segal Yachting Scene, c. 2010 Oil on canvas. 97cm x 127cm Private collection Eugene Segal was influenced by the works of artists such as Rembrandt, Velasces, Van Deik, France Hals and fellow countrymen Vrubel and Serov. Segal paints with a pallet knife, directly on canvas. Born in 1967 Russia, Segal made the decision to become…
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Franklin Stanwood, Passing Montauk Point 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #138
Franklin Stanwood, (American, 1852-1888) Passing Montauk Point, c. 1880 Oil on canvas 18″h x 30″w Private collection Montauk Point State Park is located in the hamlet of Montauk, at the eastern tip of Long Island in New York. Montauk Point is the easternmost extremity of the South Fork of Long Island. The park contains the Montauk…
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