Talk:The Ninth Wave

Nationality

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

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?

'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

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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

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]