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![Painting, L'air du temps..., Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1679457_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Retour au bercail..., Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1679454_1_grid.jpg)
Retour au bercail...
Olivier Messas
Painting - 29 x 29 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch
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![Painting, À l'unisson..., Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1679442_1_grid.jpg)
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Souffle bleu 1 - Blue breath 1
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, Sea sunset. Glare., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1741269_1_grid.jpg)
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Colorful buildings (1)
Samiran Boruah
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
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Santa Maria de la Salute
Georges Corominas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, L’histoire sans fin... (Esprit Voile 2022), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1758843_1_grid.jpg)
L’histoire sans fin... (Esprit Voile 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Plage du Goh Velin
Odile Pinto-Corbin
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
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Les deux voiles rouges... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Au rythme du vent et des vagues... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Les voiles bleues... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Les voiliers de Belle île... (Esprit Voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2090973_1_grid.jpg)
Les voiliers de Belle île... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Les uns avec les autres... (Esprit voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2090934_1_grid.jpg)
Les uns avec les autres... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Le grand bleu... (Esprit Voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1984329_1_grid.jpg)
Le grand bleu... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Couleurs en mer... (Esprit Voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1977642_1_grid.jpg)
Couleurs en mer... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
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Régate de la liberté... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Sous une pluie de couleurs…, Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1728813_1_grid.jpg)
Sous une pluie de couleurs…
Olivier Messas
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Les voiliers de l'aurore... (Esprit Voile 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Les voiliers de Hvar en Croatie... (Esprit voile 2021)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Une nouvelle aurore... (Esprit voile 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Liberté à l'horizon... (esprit voile 2022), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1545456_1_grid.jpg)
Liberté à l'horizon... (esprit voile 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Golden Venice under Tiffany, Marco Barberio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166111_1_grid.jpg)
Golden Venice under Tiffany
Marco Barberio
Painting - 69 x 98 x 3 cm Painting - 27.2 x 38.6 x 1.2 inch
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Surface de la mer 28
LN Le Cheviller
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Painting, Au rythme du vent et des vagues... (Esprit voile 2019), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1638129_1_grid.jpg)
Au rythme du vent et des vagues... (Esprit voile 2019)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 60 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Les voiles de la liberté... (Esprit voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1991649_1_grid.jpg)
Les voiles de la liberté... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 130 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
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Palm trees. Ocean. California.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
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Inspiration with light.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Palms. Ocean. Flowers., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1732839_1_grid.jpg)
Palms. Ocean. Flowers.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Ocean Light 10, Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1591782_1_grid.jpg)
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Affectionate glare of the ocean
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Evening light on the water 2., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1565769_1_grid.jpg)
Evening light on the water 2.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Golden shimmer., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1565760_1_grid.jpg)
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Shining water and clear sky.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Magic sunset over the ocean., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1563495_1_grid.jpg)
Magic sunset over the ocean.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 70 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Régate en Croatie..., Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551225_1_grid.jpg)
Régate en Croatie...
Olivier Messas
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Régate au loin... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
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À deux en mer... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
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Les lumières du printemps... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
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Lumière... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
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Ce que la sirène m'a confié...
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 34 x 34 x 2 cm Painting - 13.4 x 13.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Les voiliers de l’horizon... (Esprit voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997256_1_grid.jpg)
Les voiliers de l’horizon... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Suspendu entre ciel et mer... (Esprit voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997253_1_grid.jpg)
Suspendu entre ciel et mer... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Ensemble en mer... (Esprit voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997247_1_grid.jpg)
Ensemble en mer... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, WILD HORSES ON THE BEACH, Oswin Gesselli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1322130_1_grid.jpg)
WILD HORSES ON THE BEACH
Oswin Gesselli
Painting - 120 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
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Eve" - from the "New People
Nikolai Angelov-Gary
Painting - 90 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Immersió 204
Oriol Texidor
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
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A Love Day By The Sea
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
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Girl on the sea - Italian painting & handmade frame
Domenico Ronca
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Girl on the sea - Italian painting
Domenico Ronca
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Baignade et Soucis
Gabrielle Rul
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 15.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 6.1 inch
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Sea
Majestic and tyrannical, the sea has never ceased to fascinate artists. Untameable, this force of nature seems to have a life of its own and has inspired many artists. Since antiquity, the sea has been represented in all its glory, century after century it is honoured through various styles and colours. However, this desire to escape to the great outdoors is certainly not only reserved for 21st century painters
Maritime art began at the same time as history painting - in the 15th century, and they share many common traits. Maritime painting mostly depicts scenes of combat, historical incidents and mythology where people play a crucial role. It wasn't until the 17th century that artists stopped depicting people in their seascapes and focused solely on the representation of the landscape itself instead.
In the Middle Ages, shipwrecks and storms terrorised citizens as they interpreted them as signs of God's wrath. he church even used images of the rough sea to hold power over its believers.
Representations in classical painting were strictly governed by academic rules, and often didn't manage to convey true emotion. Maritime scenes joined the mainstream in the 19th century, especially with the arrival of the Romantic period as emotions played a much greater role in marine painting. The two great masters of the period were J.M.W Turner and Caspar David Friedrich who captured the attention of their contemporaries and whose works continue to mesmerise us today.
For the impressionists, the sea was a sublimation of nature. During the 19th century, artists come out of their studios in order to paint and describe nature as they saw and feel it. By the end of the 19th century, the sea was no longer a simple, blue expanse but rather an eruption of emotions illuminated through painting.
Contemporary art offers a new insight into creation. Today, the technique is overrun by the message and intention of the work. Therefore, we find all varieties of sea illustrations where the sea becomes an image of contemporary creation. Even though the sea is sometimes reinvented, it remains true to reality.
The new generation of contemporary artists create works that depict freshness, escape, lost coves, waves, and that salty seaside air. Discover our selection inspired by ocean waters.