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Before the storm
Matveeva Anastasia- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 170 × 90 cm
- Year
- 2016
A brick apartment block and a small cross-topped cupola stand under heavy dark storm clouds, with dense greenery filling the foreground.
- Style
- Impressionism
- Mood
- Dramatic
- Themes
- Cityscape · Architecture · Nature
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- Shipping
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EMS: 7–10 days
- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
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About this work
A tall brick apartment building rises on the left, its facade streaked with dark stains, while a lower cream-colored building with a small cross-topped cupola stands further back on the right. Dense trees and shrubs in deep green fill the lower half of the composition. Above, heavy, roiling storm clouds in blue-grey tones dominate the sky, pressing down over the rooftops.
Cool blues and slate greys sweep across the sky in broad, gestural strokes, contrasting with the warm ochre and brick-red of the buildings and the saturated greens below. Paint is applied thickly, with visible brushwork capturing the restless movement of the clouds. The atmosphere feels tense, the calm of the street set against an imminent storm.
