Oil painting The sun touches the ground Oleksiy Ivanyuk

№AAA5083

The oil painting on Cardboard titled "The Sun Touches the Ground" is a breathtaking symphony of color and emotion, capturing the fleeting yet eternal beauty of the natural world as it meets the divine. The composition is a masterful blend of impressionistic landscape and symbolic stillness, where thick, impasto brushstrokes create a textured world vibrating with life, light, and spiritual resonance. The artist uses vibrant, expressive colors to build an atmosphere that feels suspended between reality and dream, between heaven and earth. The sky, which occupies nearly two-thirds of the canvas, is a radiant tapestry of purples, turquoise, soft whites, and rich pinks. Massive clouds dominate this space, their forms built from heavy strokes of pastel and lavender hues layered with buttery whites and blush pinks. These clouds seem to glow from within, reflecting the golden light of the sun, which is not directly shown but makes its presence known through the warmth that radiates across the entire scene. The sky is not static—it swells and rolls with movement, suggesting the final moments of a sunset or the holy quiet just before dusk fully settles. Beneath this celestial ceiling lies a golden-hued landscape, where the earth bursts with tones of ochre, amber, and deep violet. Broad, confident strokes convey rolling hills and rocky outcrops, grounding the viewer in a tangible world that still pulses with light. The foreground glows with the intensity of a field bathed in the low sun—its grasses and soil illuminated in tones that seem to burn gently from within. The texture of the earth is palpable, created by thick layers of pigment that suggest the artist sculpted the terrain with brush and knife alike. A solitary wooden cross rises from the right side of the scene, weathered and tall, its rough contours contrasting with the soft majesty of the clouds behind it. This cross, perhaps a roadside memorial or a symbol of spiritual presence, anchors the scene emotionally and thematically. It stands as a silent witness to the grandeur of the landscape, a reminder of endurance and faith in a world of constant transformation. Though simple in form, it holds great weight, turning the landscape into a space of reflection, reverence, and transcendence.

*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "The sun touches the ground"
* ARTISTS: Oleksiy Ivanyuk
* SIZE: 15x20 cm/'5.90x7.87 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, cardboard
* 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.