The sea is an eternal inspiration, from French Early Modernist Pierre Bonnatd’s use of jewel-like colors in The Beach to Australian Elioth Gruner’s brilliantly lighted Tamarama Beach to German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich’s mysterious nocturne Seascape by Moonlight.

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Seascape by Moonlight, c. 1827-1828, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany