Title: Oil painting Far beyond the river Alex Kalenyuk Description: NoAAA4487 The Oil painting on Cardboard titled "Far Beyond the River" is a bold and expressive landscape that evokes a powerful emotional response through its dramatic textures, vivid contrasts, and daring palette. This artwork stands at the intersection of abstraction and representation, immersing the viewer in a vision of nature that is raw, elemental, and deeply stirring. With its thick, impasto application of paint and its spontaneous, almost violent brushwork, the painting creates a visceral experience - as if the land itself is alive, pulsing with color and movement. The composition is anchored by a wide river or body of water stretching horizontally across the upper half of the canvas. Painted in deep slate-gray tones under a subdued, cloudy sky, the water appears vast and still, a silent expanse dividing the world into two realms: the known and the mysterious "beyond." It serves as a quiet counterbalance to the fervent activity of the land in the foreground, offering a moment of visual rest amid the chaos of color below. In the middle ground, along the river's edge, dark, wind-battered trees rise like totems - their forms blurred and scorched with accents of red and orange, hinting at fire, transformation, or inner turmoil. The trees seem to be caught in a moment of resistance, leaning against an invisible force, their branches ablaze not just with autumnal color, but with intensity, perhaps even grief. These forms bring a human quality to the landscape - as if the land itself is responding to some unseen memory or event that occurred "far beyond the river." The foreground explodes with thick layers of green, ochre, violet, rust, and cobalt, depicting a wild terrain scattered with flowering plants, grasses, and rocky soil. The color is applied with a palette knife or heavy brush, giving the surface a sculptural dimension. This tactile treatment of the landscape evokes the weight of the earth and the energy of growth, decay, and rebirth. Patches of bright yellow and crimson flicker like sparks throughout the lower half of the image, pulling the eye from one section to another, never allowing rest - only exploration. "Far Beyond the River" is not merely a landscape - it is an emotional terrain. It speaks of journeys not taken, of boundaries both physical and metaphysical, and of the inner fire that drives us to confront the unknown. The river becomes a metaphor for what lies ahead or what has been left behind, while the turbulent field represents the present moment - chaotic, passionate, alive.*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING **** TITLE: "Far beyond the river"* ARTISTS: Alex Kalenyuk* SIZE: 15x20 cm/'5.90x7.87 inches'* MEDIUM: oil, cardboard* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection* CONDITION: Photos provide accurate information about the product.About the artist: Born March 13, 1954, in the city of Piryatin, Poltava region. He graduated from the Art College named after N. Samokish (1887). Teachers in the specialty: V. Grigoriev, M. Morgun, L. Gracer. Painter. The main genres are landscape, still life. The paintings are distinguished by emotional openness, warmth, affirm the harmony of life. Dominants of creativity are the deep roots of national traditions, Ukrainian cultural heritage. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2008). He taught fine art at the Pyryatinsky school - gymnasium of aesthetic education (1988-2008). At creative work. Participated in exhibitions: national and international (since 1978). Personal exhibitions - in Kiev (2003, 2007-2009), Lubny (Poltava region, California (USA; 2006), Poltava (2007, 2010), Priluki (Chernihiv region, 2008), Warsaw (2009). Main works: "Flowers field "(2007)," Still life with a daffodil "(2004)," Indian summer "(2007)," Birch "," Spiral panychi "," Kalina red "(2004)," Field of the sun "," Apple blossom ", "Evening Breath" (2005), "Silence", "Summer" (2006), "Sunflowers" (2007), "Plowed Field", "Such is Life ...", "In the Garden" (2009), "It's Cold" (2010). Individual paintings are stored in the National Museum of Art, National U. T. Shevchenko, Museum of Cultural Heritage in Kiev, Poltava Museum of Local Lore, lived and worked in the city of Poltava.
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