Surf Art

Hi! This week I will talk about how surf is represented in art. In reality I had never thought about it but it is really interesting and impressive how surf is used in different artistic styles like in paintings photography’s, comics, music, movies among others. During the years many artists had take advantage of the surf sport to go to the beach, to relax, see the waves as a point of meditation and this help to rearrange their ideas and became by some way more inspired on their works we can find many artist that had created surf works, but first of all why we don’t start by the definition about what is the Surf Art, well for this definition we could find many different opinions about it but in reality everyone’s opinion have a common path that is to show primarily the lifestyle of the surfers one of the artist  that defined this concept was Ron Croci which tells us that the Surf art is a contemporary evolution in the long history of the marine painting, RonCroci,Surf  Artist(http://www.clubofthewaves.com/surf-artist/ron-croci.php)like him we can find many different ideas from artist like Howark kirk, Maria Brophy, John O´Brien Peter, Pierce Jesse Miller, and many  others what is incredible from this artist is that all of them had surf at least one time in their  life I mean they had lived the experience of surfing and in a way they want to demonstrate to the world their love to the ocean, how did they feel  and from my point of view they make their paintings more realistic and interesting because it is something that they actually lived this type of art started approximately in 1970, actually this was the year in where Ron Croci starts painting, his style is primarily surrealistic and his paintings and prints depict shows joyful scenes of women in water sports, ocean, landscapes some examples of his paintings are like:

What did you think about them? In my personal thoughts I believe that they are very beautiful that they contain very beautiful colors and a strong feelings like of calm purity and that is not all there are many paintings like this with many different artist in the next link: http://www.clubofthewaves.com/surf-artist/ . I will like to finish this blog talking you about the surf music that it has a similarity with the paintings because it also talks us about the feelings of the surfers and its spiritual affairs.

The Surf Music started mainly in the 1960´s, it could be designed as very instrumental, but in fact this had changed over the years, surf music grew in popularity, as did surfing as a sport and as a lifestyle one of the most famous musician connected with surf music that I think everybody knows about it is Elvis Presley, although his musical style was not surf music as such, his stay at the time in Hawaii was linked in with the surf culture scene many of his fans in Hawaii would have been surfer one of the songs that he composed was Aloha Oe, although  I really invite you to navegate inside this webpage posted at the end there you can find more information about the music even comics and movies that I think it really worth to do so in fact I get all the information from there I will really like to hear your comments about it! see you next week :)

Works Cited:

Surf Culture: Surf Art. (2007, 07 01). Retrieved 09 01, 2011, from Surf Art: <http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/Government.htm>.