Surf art: artists atop the waves
The style is easy to recognize — it includes paintings, sculptures, and mixed media works of surfing culture. This is a kind of evolution of marine painting: Aivazovsky painted ships prowling the ocean, whereas modern artists paint surfers instead.
Oddly enough, the style is not young: it has existed for about a hundred years and includes elements of many trends popular in the 20th century, from surrealism
to cubism and naive art.
Artists do not follow aesthetic canons and clear rules, they mix different forms and techniques, use graphic design techniques, make irony, and are fond of phantasmagoria. Naturally, they all personally know what water sports is.
Drew Brophy is considered one of the most famous representatives of the style: he sells his artworks to pay for surfing tourism.
Artists do not follow aesthetic canons and clear rules, they mix different forms and techniques, use graphic design techniques, make irony, and are fond of phantasmagoria. Naturally, they all personally know what water sports is.
Drew Brophy is considered one of the most famous representatives of the style: he sells his artworks to pay for surfing tourism.
American artist and photographer Jay Alders is one of the most popular representatives of the genre. He often paints pictures commissioned by rock musicians, on canvas or directly on surf boards. The price of decorating an art board ranges from $300 to $2,000.
Something of Art Nouveau
Surf art has a decorative and applied character: artists decorate sports boards, clothes, make author’s sketches for tattoos, illustrations for thematic media articles, sometimes decorate surfing equipment shop windows. This is reminiscent of the path of Art Nouveau’s development: its representatives also did not focus on galleries, but sought to penetrate into all spheres of human life.Surf art includes paintings, sculptures and various design elements that praise this way of life and everything connected with it: sea, relaxation, youth, eternal summer. Recall marine painters who once sang the praises of the sea and the people who linked their lives with it — from travellers to pirates and warriors who fought on the water.
