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Title: Oil painting Spring fields are turning green Alex Kalenyuk

Description: NoAAA5214The oil painting on Canvas titled "Spring Fields Are Turning Green" immerses the viewer in the radiant awakening of the countryside as winter gives way to spring. With masterful use of the impasto technique, the artist creates a richly textured surface that pulsates with life, energy, and the vibrant renewal of nature. This composition is a celebration of seasonal transformation, where every brushstroke breathes fresh air and warmth into the canvas. Dominating the foreground, young green grass carpets the fields in luscious, uneven patches of lime, moss, and golden ochre. The thick application of paint gives the grass a three-dimensional quality, inviting touch as much as sight. Subtle streaks of brown and yellow remind us that the season's full maturity is still on the horizon-nature is in transition, unfolding gently and gradually. Scattered across the field, small dark animals-likely cows or grazing livestock-dot the landscape, adding a pastoral charm to the otherwise uninhabited meadow. Their inclusion emphasizes life returning to the land, suggesting not just growth, but livelihood and continuity. These animals, though rendered with minimal detail, are alive with movement and purpose, further anchoring the painting in reality despite its expressive style. A row of tall trees stretches vertically across the midground, their trunks starkly pale, nearly white in places, with accents of cream and caramel that reflect early spring sunlight. These trees, likely birches or poplars, are still shedding the final remnants of winter, with their bare limbs tinged by the first blush of budding leaves. The crowns of the trees explode into pastel shades of peach, orange, and saffron, blending softly with traces of sky blue and lavender in the atmosphere behind them. The sky, rather than being simply blue, is rendered in an unusual yet harmonious shade of mint green-an artistic choice that imparts a dreamlike, serene quality to the whole composition. Beyond the trees, nestled in the protective shade of the foliage, are hints of rustic village life. Blue rooftops, angular and slightly abstract, peek out among the rich red and brown tones of distant barns and homesteads. These buildings are not detailed structures but rather impressions-symbols of home, shelter, and the quiet rhythm of rural existence. Their placement among the trees conveys a sense of harmony between humanity and the natural world, without overpowering the dominant theme of regeneration.
*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Spring fields are turning green"
* ARTISTS: Alex Kalenyuk
* SIZE: 15x20 cm/5.90x7.87 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* 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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