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Category of Marine Paintings


Marine antiques constitute beautiful, creative and natural paintings of maritime. Marine art is referred as painting, drawing, printmaking and sculptures which describes the silence of marine. Marine art can be classified as abstract art and figurative art. Marine galleries comprises full of abstract art and figurative paintings. Marine painting depicts the full range of ships and sea. Wide collection can be obtained and it has been found in the history that, marine art finds its origin from 17th century and more number of artists comes up in new style.

Abstract Art

Abstract art is a kind of art that depicts the significance of marine natural appearances. It represents the objects in natural world and depicts the formal formation in shapes, lines and colors. The other kind of marine art is figurative art which describes paintings which are derived from real object sources.

Figurative Art

Figurative art represents human figure or animal figure. Figurative art refers to any form of modern art which retains strong references to the world. Actually, abstract paintings are derived from figurative paintings and term abstract art is commonly called as non-representational art or nonobjective art. Figurative art is an ideal geometry with great realism which was seen in classical sculpture. Figurative art is characterized to reconcile the opportunity principles.




 
 

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