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Winslow Homer added figures to this natural realism and reintroduced the human element to marine painting. His works focus on man «s relationship with nature, and he uses the sea to embody nature» s power. It is a constant and varied element, depicted both as provider of subsistence <javascript:OpenBrWindow(«images/m9.htm»,«m9»,«width=210,height=235»)> and a life-threatening force <javascript:OpenBrWindow(«images/m10.htm»,«m10»,«width=210,height=255»)>.impressionists favored another aspect of marine painting-that of leisure. Their interest in the sea had more to do with light and color than using a body of water as a dramatic device. Their stylistic methods provided artists with new ways to present intimate aspects of the sea, such as the picturesque coves and seasides dotted with revelers represented by
Maurice Prendergast <javascript:OpenBrWindow(«images/m11.htm»,«m11»,«width=210,height=240»)>. Twentieth-century artists experimented with a variety of styles and techniques in their interpretations of the sea. Modernist John Marin <javascript:OpenBrWindow(«images/m12.htm»,«m12»,«width=210,height=260»)> captured the ocean «s energy with exuberant brushwork and abstract geometric shapes. Mark Rothko <javascript:OpenBrWindow(»images/m13.htm«,»m13«,»width=210,height=318«)>used surrealist-inspired biomorphic forms to suggest sea creatures in a primordial marine world. Albert Christ-Janer »s <javascript:OpenBrWindow(«images/m14.htm»,«m14»,«width=210,height=240»)> lithograph combines the brilliant color of sun, sea, and sky with the rhythmic patterns of foaming waves. VijaCelmins approaches total abstraction <javascript:OpenBrWindow(«images/m15.htm»,«m15»,«width=210,height=260»)> in her quiet, meditative ocean views [3].
.6 Scenes from Everyday Life
The term «genre» refers to depictions of scenes from daily life <javascript:OpenBrWindow(«images/g1.htm»,«g1»,«resizable=yes,width=210,height=255»)>. Genre painting developed in seventeenth-century Europe, specifically in the Netherlands, when newly gained prosperity generated a large middle class and led to broad-based patronage of art. Genre emerged in America about two centuries later, when the ambitions and optimism of the young country gave rise to a public eager for pictures of people at work and play <javascript:OpenBrWindow(«images/g2.htm»,«g2»,«resizable=yes,width=210,height=280»)>.
The earliest genre paintings were scenes of rural and frontier life. These works showed A...
