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Title: Oil painting Warm evening Oleksiy Ivanyuk

Description: No.Kalen 1617The oil painting on Canvas titled "Warm evening" captures a moment suspended in time, where vibrant color and soft tranquility coexist in perfect harmony. Through broad, expressive brushstrokes and a striking use of saturated hues, the artist creates a landscape that feels both familiar and dreamlike, imbued with a sense of peace and inner stillness. The composition draws the viewer’s gaze from the foreground—a patchwork of warm yellows, ochres, and hints of crimson—toward the rolling green meadows that dominate the middle ground. This lush green expanse undulates softly, as though the wind has brushed its fingers across the land moments before stillness returned. It forms a kind of visual and emotional cushion, grounding the entire scene in natural calm. The greens vary in tone and depth, creating a sense of movement within the quiet, a pulse beneath the silence. To the right, three village cottages nestle gently into the landscape. Their whitewashed walls and sloping red-brown roofs are rendered in thick, textured strokes, almost sculptural in quality. Their simple forms evoke the rural heart of the painting—a village untouched by haste, where time moves in slow, deliberate rhythms. The red accents of the windows subtly echo the warm tones in the fields, creating a sense of cohesion between nature and human habitation. These homes, with their slightly tilted lines and tactile surfaces, are not just structures but silent witnesses to generations of quiet rural life. The upper portion of the canvas glows with radiant yellows and golden tones, suggesting the light of early morning or the hush of a late summer evening. This light filters through tall, loosely defined trees at the top of the painting, casting long shadows and diffusing into the sky in streaks of orange, amber, and lilac. The background shimmers with a warmth that is less about temperature and more about memory—perhaps a recollection of childhood, of a walk home through the fields, of solitude bathed in sunshine. To the left of the cottages, nestled under the trees, smaller dwellings fade into cooler shadows of blue and violet, suggesting both distance and contrast—life continuing quietly, tucked away in the darker folds of the landscape. Between the fields and the horizon, the viewer finds bursts of abstract color—patches of blue, violet, red, and turquoise—interwoven like woven threads or the play of evening light on a field of hay.
*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Warm evening"
* ARTISTS: Oleksiy Ivanyuk
* SIZE: 100x110 cm/'39.37x43.30 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* 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 Crimean 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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