What do the marine painters depict in the paintings? Famous painters who worked in this genre

Do you know how the marine painters work and what kind of paintings do they paint? Our article will tell exactly about this, and about one of the most famous talented painters who chose this genre for themselves - Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky - and other masters of the sea landscape.

Sea Sea

There is such a direction in landscape painting - marine painting, in which as an exclusively beautiful sea species act. The sea in such paintings can be seen in any form: quiet and affectionate or, conversely, threatening and stormy. Marinist artists are those people who have devoted themselves entirely or partially to drawing such maritime landscapes (marinas).

They can be understood. Is there something more beautiful than the seas and oceans with their breathtaking breadth, immensity and heavenly blue, shimmering in the rays of the sun in thousands of delicate shades? And this beauty is the color of the waves! Such landscapes at all times enjoyed tremendous popularity among art lovers.

The origin of the words "marinistics" and "seascapes"

In French there is the word marine, in Italian - marina, and they both derive from the Latin marinus, which means "sea" or "sea". The words "marinistics" (which denotes the genre of painting, which is described in our article) and "seascapes" are single-root with all listed foreign expressions, all of them are united by the same thing.

The most famous artists are seascapes

One of the most remarkable representatives of Russian and world marine art is, of course, IK Aivazovsky. About his work in our article will be told in more detail. But it would be unfair to say nothing at all about some other masters of this genre.

Here are their names: Russian painters Beggrov AK and Bogolyubov AP, a talented artist who worked under the Soviet Union - Zebek VE, Dane Sorensen KF, Englishman William Turner. And how skillfully it was possible to portray the sea with the famous Impressionist Claude Monet floating on his waves ! And even Vincent van Gogh sometimes painted beautiful marinas in his inimitable style.

Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovski

As promised, now we will tell about the brilliant painter - Aivazovsky. Many professional art historians and ordinary art lovers agree that no other marine painters have been able to achieve such a high level of skill as he. This person lived and worked in the 19th century. The future talent was born in the Armenian family in 1817. The boy showed extraordinary ability to draw very early. To the honor of their parents, they strongly encouraged the inclinations of the child and tried to develop them by inviting intelligent teachers into the house.

When Ivan grew up, he was accepted as a student at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where he studied in the landscape class. The first work, which was presented to the audience by the artist Aivazovsky, was called "Etude air over the sea." Already in this work, critics realized that a bright future awaited the young painter. He is sent to the Crimea with the task of writing a whole series of local landscapes. Later, Ivan Konstantinovich goes to Italy, where he carefully studies classical painting.

Upon his return to his homeland, Aivazovsky becomes an academician and heads to the Main Naval Headquarters. There he must draw the Baltic species. The young artist happened to take part in some military operations, his naval battle scenes, one might say, were written from nature. Russian painter-painter painted for his life a huge number of paintings, they can be seen in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage, the Russian Museum.

Aivazovsky Sea appears as if the basis of nature. Representing him, the painter captures all the nuances of the life of the mighty element, its divine beauty and harmony.

The most famous paintings of Aivazovsky

To list the names of all the canvases of the great seascape is impossible, so we will name only a few of them, the most famous. And begin, of course, with the "Ninth Wall", a grandiose canvas, which the artist Aivazovsky wrote in 1850. Surely you remember what is depicted in this picture: the stormless sea, the people fleeing on the fragile wreckage of the ship, and the huge wave coming on them.

Other famous paintings of the master: "Moonlit Night in the Crimea", "Neapolitan Bay", "Venice", "Shipwrecked", "Golden Horn Bay" in Turkey, "Sunset at Sea", "Evening in Crimea", " Cesme battle "," Storm ", " Seaside ", " Taking Sevastopol "," View of Venice from the side of Lido "," Sea coast "," Sveaborg "," Neapolitan lighthouse "," View of the Venetian lagoon "," Capri " Moonlight Night ", etc.

Conclusion

Marinist painters gave the world many wonderful landscapes. Being a creator is the greatest gift that a person can receive from God. How to know, maybe you - the person reading these lines, also have a unique artistic talent. In that case, why not pick up paint brushes and try to implement it in practice? After all, you can start creating beautiful at any age!