Spring Garden

One young fruit tree in coral-pink blossom, alone in an orchard, and two-thirds of the canvas left to a pale spring sky.

This is one of the most minimal paintings Alexander Tyunkin has done. The sky is brushed smooth and the blossom sits on top in thick, sculpted touches of salmon and white, so it nearly comes off the surface. The grass below is a few horizontal strokes. That restraint is what gives the tree its fragility. Oil on canvas, 70 × 60 cm, vertical.

• Artist: Alexander Tyunkin
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Size: 70 × 60 cm (27.6 × 23.6 in), height × width
• Year: 2020
• Original: one of a kind, signed by the artist