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Before the storm, 2005
Alexander Litvinov  

Painting : oil · 38 x 58 x 2 cm 15 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang

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"Before the Storm" by the renowned Ukrainian artist Alexander Litvinov is a dramatic maritime composition that captures the tense stillness before chaos. In the painting, massive ships with dark sails approach a jagged coastline, where windmills and clustered medieval houses cling to the cliffs. The sea churns with eerie anticipation, and a boat full of figures struggles through turbulent waves toward land. Above, a haunting sky—tinted with reds, yellows, and violets—swirls with double suns or celestial bodies, adding a surreal, almost apocalyptic quality. The contrast between the wind-lashed sea and the momentarily calm ships hints at impending violence, not just of nature, but possibly of conflict or conquest. Litvinov conveys a sense of awe and anxiety, exploring themes of fate, confrontation, and the fragile line between order and destruction. The painting is both a narrative and a metaphor: a civilization on the edge, unaware of the storm that's about to break.

Landscape

Vehicles

Seascape

Baroque

Ship

New realism

Storm

brown

Dark blue

Alexander Litvinov, Before the storm
Ukraine  • 1967  - 2016

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Alexander Arkadyevich Litvinov Born in 1967 in Lubny, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.

Alexander Litvinov passed away on September 15, 2016.

Schooling in book art (received his first fee from a publisher).

Graduated from the Odessa Theater and Art School with a specialty in "Artistic Design of Puppet Performances and Artistic Butaforic Art."

Collaboration with publishers "Raduga," "Dnipro" in Kyiv, and "Mayak" - designed over 30 books.

Until 1992: Art exhibitions and auctions in Odessa.

Since 1993: Participation in numerous exhibitions in Lubny, personal exhibitions in Lubny and Dnipro.

2015: Participant in the VII All-Ukrainian Exhibition "Lubenska Art Spring - 2015."

The artist's works are present in private collections across Eastern and Western Europe, the USA, and Canada.

The choice of his life path was significantly influenced by his father, Arkady Petrovich Litvinov, a talented artist and excellent educator. His older brother, Oleg Arkadyevich Litvinov, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, also chose the artistic path.

From a young age, his fascination with historical and biblical literature significantly impacted the artist's creative style. He works in the style of figurative art, where the main focus is on the depiction of the human body. Alexander Litvinov's paintings bring historical and biblical narratives to life, often featuring numerous characters, compositionally arranged according to genre conventions. He has created around a thousand works in total.

In his paintings, the artist aimed to convey global events and bright ideas, meticulously searching for deep layers of historical past. The motto of his creativity was inspired by the philosopher Kant: "Enclosed life - free art." Despite a serious illness, he generously gifted his art to people, creating large-scale artistic canvases that illuminated with the starlight of his soul.

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