Title: Oil painting Evening in the village Alex Kalenyuk Description: No.AAA5218The oil painting on Canvas titled "Evening in the Village" captures a deeply atmospheric and emotionally resonant scene that bridges the beauty of rural life with the expressive possibilities of color and form. The viewer is immediately drawn into a moment suspended between day and night, where the sun has just dipped below the horizon and the sky pulses with vibrant afterglow. The composition conveys both serenity and subtle movement, as villagers carry out the last tasks of the day under a glowing canopy of color. The sky dominates the upper portion of the canvas, painted in sweeping layers of blue, lavender, seafoam green, and pale yellow. Broad impasto strokes and visible palette knife textures create a swirling, living atmosphere that suggests the wind, cooling air, and the softness of approaching twilight. Hints of pinks and turquoise dance across the sky like painted whispers of departing sunlight, lending the painting a surreal and almost dreamlike quality. This use of bold, unexpected colors speaks to the artist’s desire not to replicate reality, but to interpret its emotional tones. Beneath this expressive sky lies the village—low, humble homes nestled across the horizon, their thatched or tin roofs painted in earthen ochres and rich browns. They serve as a stable, grounded contrast to the sky above, representing the everyday, domestic rhythms of rural life. These structures appear to be gently illuminated by the last light of day, while shadows begin to settle into the folds of the land. The artist suggests shape and distance not with fine detail but through tonal contrast and textural variation, allowing the viewer’s imagination to fill in the rest. The central focus of the lower half of the painting is the group of villagers scattered across the violet-toned field. Their bent forms, heads covered with white kerchiefs, are rendered with swift, deliberate strokes in dark reds, deep greens, and blues, conveying the essence of people hard at work, likely harvesting or tending to crops before nightfall. Though small, the figures are impactful, positioned rhythmically throughout the scene in a way that guides the eye gently from foreground to background.*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING **** TITLE: "Evening in the village"* 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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