Falling asleep
Falling asleep
Realizm and Ekspresjonizm
Wampiry i nietoperze and Fantastyka i science fiction
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🖼️ Art print on canvas
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High quality canvas printing :
- Canvas - synthetic canvas 260 g
- Natural Canvas - 260 g cotton canvas
- Stretching the canvas onto the frame
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🎨 Oil Giclée Reproduction (print + hand-finished)
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Giclée print on canvas:
- Canvas premium - natural cotton canvas 360 g
- Pigment print drying
- Hand finishing: texturing and oil painting
- Paint drying (depending on layer thickness, medium type and format)
- Stretching the canvas onto the frame
- Quality control and packaging
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🚚 Ready-made paintings – shipped within 24 hours
Our gallery has a special category called "Ready-Made Paintings" - these are works available immediately, already stretched on a frame or in a ready-made frame.
- They are 100% ready for immediate shipment
- Safe packaging in a reinforced cardboard box
Shipping takes place within: from the date of booking the order.
Image format: Reprodukcja Oil Giclée
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1. Title
"Falling Asleep"
2. Description of the image
Deep in a forgotten crypt, where time has long since ceased to matter, a vampire lies motionless—no longer a creature of the night, but a memory. He rests on an ancient sarcophagus, his hands folded across his chest as if in silent prayer. His face is calm, closed—no terror, no triumph. Around him lie candles that have long since burned out, and roses—only shadows of red, fading from memory.
Cobwebs drape the walls, and moonlight seeps through cracks in the ceiling, caressing the silhouette like a benediction. This is not a grave—this is a place of rest. Not death—but sleep.
3. Technology
The painting was painted in oil on canvas in a wide 2:1 format, with a distinct use of impasto on the stone, fabrics, and candle details. Short, pinpoint brushstrokes add texture depth, particularly in the dust and rose patterns. The entire piece is painted with a subtle, narrative slowness—as if each brushstroke were a sigh.
4. Style
The style is in the spirit of Romantic realism with symbolic depth. The painting is more meditative than dramatic – a contemplation of closure, silence, and reconciliation with fate. The composition is broad and static – nothing is about to happen, everything has already happened.
5. Colors
A subdued, cool, and gentle palette—grays, muted blues, muted crimson pinks, and timeless whites. These colors don't shout—they tell a story. They suggest an eternity that doesn't hurt, but soothes.
6. Invoice
Texture is strongest in the stone, dried flowers, and draperies—all rendered with equal attention, as if each element were equivalent to the vampire's presence. The figure itself—smooth, almost ephemeral—as if about to vanish with the first light of day.
7. Inspiration
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Caspar David Friedrich – for the silence and spirituality of the ruins.
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Odilon Redon – for the gentleness of the darkness and the delicacy of the symbols.
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Andrei Tarkovsky – for the sanctity of silence and light.
8. Message and interpretation
"The Sleeper" isn't about death—it's about rest. About choosing nonexistence in a world that knows no silence. It's a film about reconciliation—not with fate, but with time. The vampire hasn't been defeated—he has departed the scene. It's a dream that needs no awakening.
9. Originality
It's an image that doesn't dominate, but endures. "Sleeping" is the quiet end of a story that needs no punch line. It's a work that resonates in the heart—not like a sound, but like an echo. True immortality is not movement—it is peace.
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