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Title: Oil painting Big city lights Alex Kalenyuk

Description: NoAAA5086 The oil painting on Cardboard titled "Big City Lights" captures the pulsing energy and vibrant contrasts of urban life, interpreted through a kaleidoscope of color and expressive texture. With bold impasto strokes and vivid hues, the artist constructs a cityscape that is both visually dynamic and emotionally charged, reflecting the essence of a metropolis that never truly sleeps. This is not a literal rendering of a city, but rather a sensory interpretation-one that embraces movement, noise, and atmosphere through layers of thick oil paint and fearless brushwork. At the heart of the composition, towering urban buildings stretch across the canvas in shades of white, cream, and violet. Their abstract, block-like forms rise behind a lush wall of green trees, rendered with energetic sweeps of lime, emerald, and turquoise. These structures, although static, appear to shimmer under the light, as if the city breathes with each passing moment. The buildings are softened by shadow and light, appearing both monumental and ephemeral-a skyline that flickers between day and night. The middle section of The painting explodes with life. The trees in the foreground act as a living barrier between the urban mass and the movement of the streets below. Painted with gestural dashes of green, blue, and yellow, the trees pulse with vitality. Their trunks-thick and twisting in reds and oranges-inject warmth and organic form into a setting otherwise dominated by hard architectural lines. This green zone suggests a city park or boulevard, offering a rare but vital breath of nature amid the concrete. Beneath the trees lies the most animated part of the scene: a city street alive with vehicles, pedestrians, and the color of everyday life. Swaths of lavender, rose, and indigo define the street, where cars in vivid reds, blues, and yellows create a sense of constant motion. The vehicles, rendered in abstract form, feel like streaks of light captured in a long exposure, their shapes almost melting into the pavement beneath them. This movement evokes the rush and rhythm of city life-fast, unpredictable, and full of energy. Hints of human figures can be seen along the street and beneath the trees, painted with just a few strokes of primary colors. These figures, though small in scale, embody the human presence that drives the city forward. They are the dreamers, the workers, the wanderers, all part of the urban current flowing through this vast environment.

*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Big city lights"
* 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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