A seascape is a photograph, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea, in other words an example of marine art. The word originated as a formation from landscape, which was first used of images of land in art. By a similar development, "seascape" has also come to mean actual views of the sea itself, and to be applied in planning contexts to geographical locations possessing a good view of the sea.
A seascape painting- is simply a work of art in which the ocean or major body of water is one of the central elements of the work. Falling under their own genre, seascapes’ close cousins, marine and maritime paintings, focus more on ships or other manmade objects in a narrative composition
