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  2. The sea in culture - Wikipedia

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    The role of the sea in culture has been important for centuries, as people experience the sea in contradictory ways: as powerful but serene, beautiful but dangerous. [2] Human responses to the sea can be found in artforms including literature, art, poetry, film, theatre, and classical music. The earliest art representing boats is 40,000 years old.

  3. Oceanian art - Wikipedia

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    What they witnessed was a flourishing tradition of art and culture, such as the first record of the region's elaborate wood carving. It isn't until the latter half of the 19th century, however, that westernization begins to takes its toll. Some traditional forms of art go into decline, but others like sculpture survive and even thrive in the ...

  4. Marine art - Wikipedia

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    Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [ 1 ]

  5. Art movement - Wikipedia

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    Art movements were especially important in modern art, when each consecutive movement was considered a new avant-garde movement. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality (figurative art).

  6. Shore power - Wikipedia

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    Shore power or shore supply is the provision of shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth while its main and auxiliary engines are shut down. [1] While the term denotes shore as opposed to off-shore, it is sometimes applied to aircraft or land-based vehicles (such as campers, heavy trucks with sleeping compartments and tour buses), which may plug into grid power when parked for idle reduction.

  7. The Power Couple Making the Art World More Inclusive - AOL

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    Rujeko Hockley, 41, is an associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Thomas, 48, is an artist who designed the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial unveiled in Boston in 2023.

  8. The Pearl and the Wave - Wikipedia

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    The painting shows a nude woman lying on the edge of a rocky sea shore, with her head turned to gaze backward over her shoulder towards the viewer. Waves are breaking in the background. The Pearl and the Wave was the subject of contemporary curiosity. [1] The painting was met with praise from art critics for its technique and distinguishing ...

  9. Cruise lines and ports are banking on shore power. What ... - AOL

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