Aivazovsky’s “Ninth Wave” included in list of 10 best marine paintings

Aivazovsky’s “Ninth Wave” included in list of 10 best marine paintings – 

ARMENPRESS – The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky (1850) was included in the list of 10 best paintings which depict the incredible beauty of the sea. The list was formed by the international prestigious The Creative Business blog which is dedicated to art, mainly to photography and painting. The above mentioned was reported by Armenpress.

 The top ten also includes: Abraham Willaerts – Stormy Sea (1629), Hokusai – Great wave of Kanagawa (1829- 1832), William Turner- Snow Storm (1842), Claude Monet – Stormy Sea in Étretat (1883) and other works.

 The Creative Business was founded by a group of photographers and art experts working in Europe and The United States. The aim of the blog is to present the world with the events happening in the most famous museums and galleries.

 The Ninth Wave is an 1850 painting by the Russian Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his best known work. The titles refer to the nautical tradition that waves grow larger and larger in a series up to the largest wave, the ninth (or tenth) wave, at which point the series starts again.