Original artwork description:

№AAA5224

The oil painting on Canvas titled "Twilight Over the City" captures the ethereal beauty of a city bathed in the waning light of day. With a masterful use of color, impasto texture, and dynamic composition, the artist immerses the viewer in a vivid urban scene where architecture, light, and human presence converge in a harmonious visual symphony. The canvas is dominated by towering buildings, rendered with thick, expressive strokes that suggest centuries-old facades, their walls weathered by time yet radiant in the golden hue of twilight. The left side of the canvas glows with warm tones—burnt orange, ochre, and golden yellows—hinting at the last rays of sun caressing the buildings as they reflect back a fiery glow. In contrast, the right side leans into cooler purples, deep blues, and muted grays, where the shadows have already settled, marking the boundary between day and night. Running through the center of the painting is a luminous ribbon of light—a cobbled street or square glowing with soft ivory, cream, and pastel tones—perhaps remnants of sunlight clinging to the stone or the reflection of streetlamps just beginning to flicker to life. This glowing path winds into the distance, drawing the eye inward and upward, offering a visual journey through the heart of the city. It becomes both a literal and symbolic axis, a division between the sunlit joy of the day and the contemplative calm of the night. The buildings themselves are abstracted yet full of character. Their forms blur at the edges, softened by the thick application of oil paint and the interplay of light. Windows appear as blackened voids, some dark and mysterious, others catching faint reflections of color from the sky or nearby structures. The facades are alive with layers—lavenders, rusts, hints of teal and crimson—all blending and dancing under the artist’s palette knife. This rich layering evokes the depth of history and human activity etched into every corner of the urban environment.

*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Twilight Over the City"
* 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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