Bright Sunset, 2025

Liubov Kvashnina  

"Bright Sunset" explores the atmospheric and emotional qualities of a sunset through an expressive approach to landscape painting. The horizon serves as a quiet structural element, separating the expansive sky from the reflective surface of the water, while an intense interplay of deep blues, crimson, orange, and golden yellow shapes the composition.

Across the canvas, layered and fragmented brushstrokes create a textured visual field in which the boundaries between sky, light, and water remain fluid. The vibrant warmth of the setting sun emerges through the darker tones of the surrounding landscape, creating a tension between radiance and depth. Its reflection extends across the water in broken passages of color, suggesting the transient nature of light and its changing relationship with the surface.

Moving between recognizable landscape and abstraction, "Bright Sunset" is less concerned with a literal representation of a particular place than with the sensory experience of observing light at the end of the day. The expressive application of paint transforms the familiar sunset motif into a study of color, atmosphere, and the fleeting character of perception.