HOUSE BY THE HEART - oil painting on canvas by Leonid Afremov

HOUSE BY THE HEART

The autumn melancholy

Modern canvas art would look less attractive if there were no such artist as Leonid Afremov, whose works are always so impressive that you cannot resist their sorcery. This marvellous painting of his depicts an autumn city at night and bears the melancholic atmosphere that is so peculiar to autumn. Many people appreciate this enchanting time, and if you are one of these people, it is high time to enjoy this lovely picture.

The ingredients of melancholy

What makes this modern canvas artwork look so touching?

·                    The very depicted season is usually associated with something melancholic and tender.

·                    The rainy weather also makes us feel a bit sad, calm and lonely.

·                    Old cities are too able to bring us some kind of despondency, especially if we long for the past.

Heartlights

Looking at this fine modern canvas painting, we see an empty night street in some European city. It is autumn, and the trees are almost bare, with rare red leaves still held up by the dark branches. It was raining, and the road was turned into a black mirror whose dim surface is reflecting the yellow lights of the street lampposts. Their light is also cast on the walls of the house standing before you, so that, yellow itself, it has become even more yellow, while its black windows seem to contain no soul behind their invisible glass reflecting the blue night gloom that is reigning there where no lamplight can enter. And thus your heart seems to have something inside that connects you with the cold yellow walls and empty windows, with the almost leafless trees and their motionless black trunks, eventually with the blue night gloom covering the whole city with its vague trembling mist. And the very wind running through the whole city space is able to touch not only the reddish leaves on the trees but your very soul, tired and longing for warmness.

This magnificent painting by Leonid Afremov will become an ideal decoration for your living room and will fill it with the enchanting autumn atmosphere Leonid Afremov has managed to capture.