Original artwork description:

№AAA5577

The Oil painting Canvas titled “Summer blue night” captures the fleeting beauty of a summer evening as it transitions into night, filled with rich colors, textures, and emotions. The artist uses expressive impasto strokes to create a world where twilight hues and earthy tones blend together, evoking both tranquility and intensity. The scene is suffused with contrasts—light against shadow, warmth against coolness, stillness against movement—bringing the viewer into the heart of a countryside moment that is at once ephemeral and eternal. The sky dominates much of the composition, painted in deep shades of indigo, violet, and cobalt blue. These tones, applied with bold, sweeping gestures, suggest the heavy embrace of night slowly falling over the land. Yet, streaks of brilliant pinks, magentas, and luminous yellows break through the darker canvas of the sky, evoking the last fiery traces of a summer sunset. These radiant streaks of color are not just a backdrop but an active participant in the painting, setting the mood and imbuing the scene with an almost dreamlike intensity. Below this sky, the land unfolds in a vivid tapestry of greens, blues, and ochres. The field, painted with quick, layered strokes, glows in patches of bright green, as though holding on to the remnants of daylight. Within this field, small dark shapes suggest cattle grazing quietly, their presence grounding the painting in rural simplicity. These figures, humble yet important, add life and movement to the landscape, reminding the viewer that the night is not empty but alive with quiet rhythms. To the right of the canvas, dark towering silhouettes of trees rise against the colorful horizon. They are painted with a mix of heavy purples and deep blacks, their bold forms contrasting sharply with the surrounding bright colors. Their presence creates both mystery and protection, as though they stand as guardians of the night. On the left side, the artist introduces warmer orange and red hues, which might represent distant houses, barns, or simply the fiery glow of the sunset reflecting on natural forms. This balance of fiery warmth and cool darkness mirrors the emotional duality of twilight: the melancholy of day’s end and the peace of night’s arrival.

*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Summer blue night"
* ARTISTS: Oleksiy Ivanyuk
* 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

Materials used:

oil

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