Eugene
Garin was born in 1922 in Odessa, Russia. He is perhaps the most influential
contemporary seascape artist.
This Russian-born master has
spawned and inspired many of today's great
seascapists through his tremendous talent and imagination.
Garin is best known for his
rendition of the
transparent wave. Influenced
by the Russian
painter Peter Effremovich Fedatov
during his youth in
Odessa, Russia and
later by the works of I. K. Aivazowsky, Garin has
combined the traditional
beauty of
European art
with contemporary techniques developed by his own hand.
With a prominent career
extending over four decades, he broke through
barriers in seascape
painting technique that had restrained artists for years.
Using
texture and a variety of translucent glazes, Garin creates compositions that
are bold, yet controlled. His
compositions are unique
and varied, from shipwreck scenes, to romantic moonlit ocean
breakers, to sun-drenched seascapes at dusk, to misty coastal
coves. The sea
is always the commanding force in his paintings, its
rich beauty and vastness
exemplifies in each composition.
The vivid
emotional impact which
Garin creates excites the. imagination and stirs our inner desire to
challenge its eternal domain.
Considered
the. patriarch of modern seascape art, his paintings hang in
many major collections throughout the globe, including Canada,
England, South America,
South Africa, Japan, Mexico and Russia,
as well as
hundreds of American homes. Eugene
Garin is an artist who appeals
to both the
novice collector and the connoisseur. He is
listed in Who's Who in
California and the American Art Analog. Garin has
artwork in
the permanent collection
of the Russian
Consulate in San
Francisco along with the Presidential
Palace in
Panama. Garin has been
featured in national magazines and his works have
been on tour around the world for public display.
Admired by art
critics and his
contemporaries, Garin is assured a place
in history.
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