Beautiful stuff to look at in lockdown, your fave sea artists.

Its interesting, and I was quite surprised, how many folk preferred paintings of boats, looking technically and structurally correct, to seascapes. Most of the artists posted don't float my boat, except Helen Robertson. I wonder if there is any correlation to liking working on boats vs voyaging in them to the types of artists preferred? Or if it's just me that's not as into boats as most here :)
I like looking at boats, and admire beautiful ones, but I don't really care much about them, as long as I have one I can get the job in hand done with. I would be happier with a snapdragon 23 and a years cruise right round Ireland in it, than a much bigger fancier boat I could only go out at the weekend on. I'm the same with cameras, I don't give a toss what model or type anything is shot with, or the technical details, I just like the image, or not. That marine artists link is wonderful though, hours of enjoyment bookmarked there!

Edited to add, forgot to say, Joaquin Sorolla is wonderful, I those. Not sea and boats tho.
 
steve yates said:
Its interesting, and I was quite surprised, how many folk preferred paintings of boats, looking technically and structurally correct, to seascapes. Most of the artists posted don't float my boat, except Helen Robertson. I wonder if there is any correlation to liking working on boats vs voyaging in them to the types of artists preferred? Or if it's just me that's not as into boats as most here :)
I like looking at boats, and admire beautiful ones, but I don't really care much about them, as long as I have one I can get the job in hand done with. I would be happier with a snapdragon 23 and a years cruise right round Ireland in it, than a much bigger fancier boat I could only go out at the weekend on. I'm the same with cameras, I don't give a toss what model or type anything is shot with, or the technical details, I just like the image, or not. That marine artists link is wonderful though, hours of enjoyment bookmarked there!

Edited to add, forgot to say, Joaquin Sorolla is wonderful, I those. Not sea and boats tho.
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Well, for me, I've got to say that seascapes - usually paintings of breaking waves - tend to be ten a penny at exhibitions of amateur art - very well done in many cases, but too frequent a subject to attract interest. So, for me, it's ships and shipping that attract attention unless the seascape is by JW Turner - and even he usually had some human interest in the form of ships in his paintings.

Just to broaden the subject, what about music? I think that Mendelsohn captures a lot in his "Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage" - though you have to remember that the title contrasts a calm sea with a prosperous voyage - a calm sea meant a vessel that was going nowhere - a lively breeze was what was needed for a prosperous voyage! And of course, the Hebrides Overture captures much of the mood of the seas of the Western Isles.
 
steve yates said:
Its interesting, and I was quite surprised, how many folk preferred paintings of boats, looking technically and structurally correct, to seascapes. Most of the artists posted don't float my boat, except Helen Robertson. I wonder if there is any correlation to liking working on boats vs voyaging in them to the types of artists preferred? Or if it's just me that's not as into boats as most here :)
I like looking at boats, and admire beautiful ones, but I don't really care much about them, as long as I have one I can get the job in hand done with. I would be happier with a snapdragon 23 and a years cruise right round Ireland in it, than a much bigger fancier boat I could only go out at the weekend on. I'm the same with cameras, I don't give a toss what model or type anything is shot with, or the technical details, I just like the image, or not. That marine artists link is wonderful though, hours of enjoyment bookmarked there!

Edited to add, forgot to say, Joaquin Sorolla is wonderful, I those. Not sea and boats tho.
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Sorolla's good, I wasn't aware of him.

Your 'boats, looking technically....' comment reminds me that I have a Napier Hemy print entitled 'Life'. It's in a cupboard. The boat's bent and I can't stand it.

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Sorolla did much of his work in Valencia where the light apparently has a luminous quality,his work are quite astonishing for their portrait of light.I went to an exhibition in Madrid and pictures in magazines etc do no justice to the actual size and riot of color and light.He is not a well known painter outside of Spain
 
Wansworth said:
Sorolla did much of his work in Valencia where the light apparently has a luminous quality,his work are quite astonishing for their portrait of light.I went to an exhibition in Madrid and pictures in magazines etc do no justice to the actual size and riot of color and light.He is not a well known painter outside of Spain
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His treatment of the light on waves, or more particularly on fabric is astonishing. Just look at the sailcloth in the one of the sail being repaired, or the girls' frocks in the other one I posted. He deserves to be more widely appreciated.
 
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