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Boating is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Édouard Manet.The painting depicts a man and woman on a sailboat during the summertime. It was painted during in the summer of 1874, during which time Manet was staying on his family's property in Gennevilliers. [1]
The Poème de l'amour et de la mer (literally, Poem of Love and the Sea), Op. 19, is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Ernest Chausson. It was composed over an extended period between 1882 and 1892 and dedicated to Henri Duparc. Chausson would write another major work in the same genre, the Chanson perpétuelle, in 1898.
The role of the sea in culture has been important for centuries, as people experience the sea in contradictory ways: as powerful but serene, beautiful but dangerous. [2] Human responses to the sea can be found in artforms including literature, art, poetry, film, theatre, and classical music. The earliest art representing boats is 40,000 years old.
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [ 1 ]
Chichester Canal (painting) Christ Asleep during the Tempest; Claude Monet Painting in his Studio; Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening; Coming South; The Course of Empire (paintings) The Crossing of the Red Sea (Sistine Chapel) Crossing of the Red Sea (Bronzino) The Crossing of the Red Sea (Poussin)
The shuttles of the loom resemble boats, foreshadowing the Lady's death. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1916. It was sold from the estate of the accountant John George Griffiths CVO at Hampton's in 1923 for 300 guineas, and passed through the hands of the art dealer Arthur de Casseres.
The Beach at Sainte-Adresse is an 1867 oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet. Its first exhibition was in 1876 with favorable reactions. Its first exhibition was in 1876 with favorable reactions. It entered Jean-Baptiste Faure 's, a French singer and art collector, acquired it for his collection. [ 1 ]
The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It shows a man in a small dismasted rudderless fishing boat struggling against the storm-tossed waves and perils of the sea, presumably near the Gulf Stream, and was the artist's statement on a theme that had interested him for more than a decade.