Talk:The Ninth Wave

Nationality[edit]

Ivan Ayvazovski is an Armenian painter not Russian. His real name is Hovhannes Ayivazyan. There are couple of paintings where he signed his name in Armenian.

Influence[edit]

His technique and imagination in depicting the shimmering play of light on the waves and seafoam is especially admired, and gives his seascapes a romantic yet realistic quality that echoes the work of English watercolorist J. M. W. Turner and Russian painter Sylvester Shchedrin.

More needs to be said about this. Viriditas (talk) 09:02, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Literally?[edit]

'Девятый вал' does not literally mean 'The Ninth Wave'. It literally means 'The Tenth Wave' (just get a dictionary or plug it in to Google Translate).

"Девять" does literally mean "nine" in Russian. "Десять" means "ten". I think you had a type mistake.

--93.192.207.136 (talk) 18:38, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Gramaatical error in the final sentence, no comma after "side" Maybe, "both the destructiveness and beauty of nature." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.235.206.162 (talk) 15:31, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

File:Hovhannes Aivazovsky - The Ninth Wave - Google Art Project.jpg to appear as POTD soon[edit]

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Hovhannes Aivazovsky - The Ninth Wave - Google Art Project.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on October 12, 2015. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2015-10-12. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:38, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the day

The Ninth Wave is an oil painting on canvas completed by the Russian Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky in 1850. It depicts a sea after a night storm and people facing death attempting to save themselves by clinging to debris from a wrecked ship. The title refers to a belief that waves grow increasingly larger until the largest wave, the ninth (or tenth) wave.Painting: Ivan Aivazovsky

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References[edit]

The first two of three references don't work. Can anybody correct them? I would like to translate the article into german and I need references.

Can anybody, who's for longer time here on Wikipedia fix this problem? (I hope I didn't make mistakes in this sentence...)

--Lesendes Okapi (talk) 15:37, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]