"The Shipwreck," 1772, Claude-Joseph Vernet

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Channels: For KidsPainting
Artists: Claude-Joseph Vernet
Themes: Learning to Look

Claude-Joseph Vernet was one of the most famous landscape and marine painters in Europe during the second half of the eighteenth century. In this painting, “The Shipwreck,” Vernet depicts a stormy seascape, one of his favorite subjects. Shipwrecks were a real hazard of travel in the eighteenth century, much like the automobile or airplane crashes of today. Vernet’s lively brushwork adds to the drama of this scene, especially the dark sky and sea painted in shades of green and blue. On view in the West Building, Gallery 52. http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=111194
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In this video we can see the description of the work by Claude Joseph Vernet. This is a marine painting, viz Storm. In that work we can see the sinking ship and people who try to save theirselves. The artist uses different colours to show all the feelings and emotions of people in that situation. I like marine painting most of all because it's very diffucult to draw the sea and to show the mood of the waves.
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