Tag: Sand
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Ludolf Backhuysen; Fishing boats on the North Sea coast at high tide 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #153
Ludolf Bakhuizen (28 December 1630 – 17 November 1708) was a German-born Dutch painter, draughtsman, calligrapher and printmaker. He was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger left for England in 1672. He also painted portraits of his family and circle of friends. Bakhuizen was born in Emden,…
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Charles Anslow Thornley, Harbor in Gravesend 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #152
Gravesend is an ancient town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross on the south bank of the Thames Estuary and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Charles Thornley, British fl 1858 – 1893, was a member of the Royal Society of British Painters, working mainly in oil. He lived in London…
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Willi Bauer, Harbor Scene 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #151
Willi Bauer is a contemporary German painter known for his Impressionist-styled depictions of garden parties and rustic villages. Born on July 7, 1923 in Spessart, Germany, Bauer studied at the Staedel College of Fine Art in Frankfurt under the artist Della Villa. In the spirit of German painters like Otto Eduard Pippel, Bauer often painted people…
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Thomas Saliot, Green Hotel 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #149
Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas. Thomas Saliot was born in…
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20th Century School, Passenger Ship Entering New York Harbor 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #150
Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with modernism in the late nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke in Germany. Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting. Die Brücke strove for…
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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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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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