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Title: Oil painting The beds smell like home Alex Kalenyuk

Description: NoAAA5067 The oil painting on Cardboard titled "The Beds Smell Like Home" is a vibrant homage to rural simplicity, domestic life, and the deep sensory ties between land and memory. Executed in expressive impasto strokes, this artwork captures a sun-drenched garden in full bloom, nestled in front of a traditional whitewashed house. Every inch of The painting radiates warmth, labor, and a profound connection to one's roots-summoning the scent of fresh soil, ripening vegetables, and the quiet rustle of leaves stirred by summer wind. At the center of the composition stands a woman-likely a grandmother, mother, or gardener-her form bent slightly in focused attention to the task at hand. She is dressed in a red skirt and a white headscarf, instantly recognizable as part of the rural tradition. Her presence is both humble and heroic, symbolizing endurance, care, and the timeless rhythm of life connected to the land. The vivid red of her clothing becomes a focal point against the green waves of cabbage, underscoring her centrality to this world. The beds themselves are a dazzling explosion of green in many hues-cool mint, rich forest, and deep teal. Their tactile thickness gives the viewer a sensation of texture and lushness, as if one could reach in and pluck a cabbage leaf, still moist from dew. Interspersed among the greens are strokes of orange, gold, and red, suggesting marigolds, pumpkins, or perhaps nasturtiums-vibrant, flourishing, and spilling with life. These colors lend movement and richness to the garden, evoking the abundance of late summer and the loving chaos of an unmanicured, yet thriving, plot. Behind the garden stands a simple, charming house, painted with thick white and lavender strokes. Its windows-trimmed in cheerful blue and yellow-give the impression of watching over the garden like a quiet guardian. The structure's thatched or shingled roof is rendered in earthy browns and muted grays, anchoring the scene and grounding it in tradition. It is not merely a backdrop but an integral character in the narrative-a place of rest, meals, laughter, and generations of stories. Above and around the house, the sky stretches in bold, unblended blues, pierced by leafy branches in green, violet, and ochre. The contrast between sky and foliage adds vibrancy and depth, while suggesting a breeze moving through the trees, bringing with it the scent of tomatoes, dill, and sun-warmed earth.

*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "The beds smell like home"
* ARTISTS: Alex Kalenyuk* SIZE: 15x20 cm/'5.90x7.87 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, cardboard
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this 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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