Video: The man and the sea. Ran Orther's incredible portraits of the sea
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Returning to stories about the power of inspiration that nature gives to a creative person, one cannot fail to mention the role of the four elements. At Cultural Studies, we often write about masterpieces, both dedicated to these elements, and those born under their influence, for example, about "natural" decorations, stunning photographs of fireworks, ocean waves and seascapes. So the artist Ran Ortherin love with the beauty of the sea and its changeable character, will make an excellent company to the authors of the already mentioned works. Moreover, his incredible portraits sea elements impossible to ignore. The famous seascape painter Aivazovsky believed that one cannot just copy the beauty of nature by sketching its portraits from nature - you need to remember what you see, and then create, focusing on your memory and imagination. Modern marine painter Ren Ortner, passionate about travel and surfing, willingly follows this advice, studying the sea where he happens to travel, and then splashing out on the canvas the impressions, emotions and memories absorbed during the trip. So, in 2009, Ren Ortner bypassed 1200 competitors in the fight for the main prize of the prestigious ArtPrize competition. The first prize went to his oil painting "Open Water No. 24", a huge canvas over 5.5 meters long, on which the artist depicted all the power, beauty and grace of the sea wave. Moreover, he did it so naturally that it seemed as if this wave would now roll over the audience from head to toe …
The endless variability and hidden power of the sea wave, the gracefulness and rhythm of its movements, as well as the poetry of the images and forms born of this element, lead to the fact that all seascapes created by the seascape are remarkable for their amazing, almost impossible realism. And it always seems that the wave is about to break out and this water column will fall on the audience, crushing everything that it meets on its way. Plowing the seas and oceans on his surf, the artist absorbs what he sees around him, and then inspiredly creates on canvas his incredible portraits of this element, giving the paintings simple but capacious names, such as "Storm", "Depth", "Wave "," Calm ". These works have won more than one heart of the same people in love with the sea.
By the way, in addition to seascapes, Ren Ortner creates sand installations on the coast. You can get to know more about his work on the artist's website.
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