Seascape Paintings Ahoy
Seascape Paintings Ahoy
Seascape Paintings AhoyEven a seagull may be thought of as triangles for wings and a trapezoid for a body, rendered in abstract brushwork to suggest the bird without detailing every pinfeather. Consisting of the curves of a breaking wave rather than the cubism inherent in a cityscape, an abstract seascape painting will delight anyone who takes the time to study the white foam arising from a wave's spent fury or that same wave backlit by a noontime sun. The abstract quality of a seascape will not be overlooked by the discerning art aficionado.
The brightness of a full moon at the apex of the night may illuminate the dark secrets of a night spent at sea, dispelling the fear of the unknown that Man has inherited from his long-ago pioneering seafaring ancestors. In this way, both Nature and Man are the subjects, each realm affected by and affecting the other: Man tames the night and the sea by artificial light and superb seamanship, and Nature is kind, for once, and forgoes sending a gale to disrupt such lightheartedness. A substrata of the seascape painting genre is the moonlit sea, mysteriously gleaming under a half moon and full starlight with a party boat on the horizon, brightly lit with Japanese lanterns and a fireworks show for the midnight revelers.
The brightness of a full moon at the apex of the night may illuminate the dark secrets of a night spent at sea, dispelling the fear of the unknown that Man has inherited from his long-ago pioneering seafaring ancestors. In this way, both Nature and Man are the subjects, each realm affected by and affecting the other: Man tames the night and the sea by artificial light and superb seamanship, and Nature is kind, for once, and forgoes sending a gale to disrupt such lightheartedness. A substrata of the seascape painting genre is the moonlit sea, mysteriously gleaming under a half moon and full starlight with a party boat on the horizon, brightly lit with Japanese lanterns and a fireworks show for the midnight revelers.
