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Stephen J. Renard is a British marine painter.
Early in his career, Renard worked as a freelance illustrator and also made a living as a portrait painter. In the 1980s Renard developed a passion for sailing, which inspired a new genre and he eventually became one of the world's best known contemporary marine artists, specializing in classic racing yachts.
Renard's work is held in many private and corporate collections around the world.
Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine was a French painter who specialized in landscapes, especially views of the Seine.
Jamie Medlin is a British marine artist living and working in Cornwall.
He studied at Falmouth School of Art and Design and in Australia. Combining his two passions, painting and yachting, Medlin creates photorealistic seascapes with picturesque yachts. The artist is talented at capturing the nuances of light, which changes every minute and depends on the time of day and weather.
Jamie Medlin is a British marine artist living and working in Cornwall.
He studied at Falmouth School of Art and Design and in Australia. Combining his two passions, painting and yachting, Medlin creates photorealistic seascapes with picturesque yachts. The artist is talented at capturing the nuances of light, which changes every minute and depends on the time of day and weather.
Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Charles Brooking is a British marine artist.
He is known for his paintings depicting various ships at sea. Researchers have noted great accuracy in depicting structures and ocean waves and wind, which may indicate that Brooking had experience at sea.
Emil Nolde (born Hans Emil Hansen) was a German-Danish painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color. He is known for his brushwork and expressive choice of colors. Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently in his work, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber tones. His watercolors include vivid, brooding storm-scapes and brilliant florals.
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America.
Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne. Le Corbusier prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several buildings there, especially the government buildings.
Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the «King of the skies».
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and of Friedrich Nietzsche, and for the mythology of his birthplace.
