Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A view or picture of the sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A picture representing a scene at sea; a sea-piece.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A picture representing a scene at sea. Compare
landscape .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A piece of
art that depicts thesea orshoreline .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a view of the sea
- noun a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape)
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Examples
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Seeing a multicolored-panel sculpture laid out against the seascape was a beautiful fusion of nature and art.
Stars and Stripes 2010
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"seascape" photograph, a DVD of an Anton Corbijn film, and a hardcover book with interviews and photographs that document the making of the album.
Fast Company 2009
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The three "Nocturnal" pieces, each a different size with distinct proportions, depict three registers of texturally delineated landscape (rocky pier), seascape (bark-like waves) and night sky (studded with stars) are particularly satisfying -- minimal or abstract versions of a Van Gogh nocturne at the De Young Museum in the current Post-Impressionism show.
ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See ArtScene 2010
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Not everything here is tumescent: Théo van Rysselberghe's seascape "Big Clouds" (1893) is a bit of Seurat pointillism on the Danube, and in Klimt's "Forester House in Weissenbach on the Attersee" (1912), the open casements are painted with Van Gogh's flamelike passion.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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The three "Nocturnal" pieces, each a different size with distinct proportions, depict three registers of texturally delineated landscape (rocky pier), seascape (bark-like waves) and night sky (studded with stars) are particularly satisfying -- minimal or abstract versions of a Van Gogh nocturne at the De Young Museum in the current Post-Impressionism show.
ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See ArtScene 2010
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The three "Nocturnal" pieces, each a different size with distinct proportions, depict three registers of texturally delineated landscape (rocky pier), seascape (bark-like waves) and night sky (studded with stars) are particularly satisfying -- minimal or abstract versions of a Van Gogh nocturne at the De Young Museum in the current Post-Impressionism show.
ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See ArtScene 2010
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Mar–end Oct, tent + two adults £12-£14, extra person £3.50 per night, under-5s free, electrical hook-up £3.75A Snowdonian seascape to take your breath away lies in wait at Cae Du.
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"The Grand Palais transformed into an underw ater seascape and Florence singing in a conch … that was my highlight."
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Easter–mid Sep; two adults £20 per night, children £5 per night, tipi hire sleeps four £395 per week, 01348 837384Wheems boasts the sort of big, blustery seascape that just wouldn't look the same viewed from a hotel window.
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This artist is as adept at painting a seascape as he is a child's room.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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