Fine Art America Artist Feature Yolanda Terrell Impressionism

Fine Art America Artist Feature Yolanda Terrell Impressionism

I am going to feature artists that have their works on Fine Art America and paint Impressionism or post impressionist style.

Fine Art America is a website where artists like myself can make their artworks available as prints on demand. Which means the artwork is printed when it is ordered. This system simplifies the process because the artist does not have to guess what sizes will sell best and invest deeply in getting prints manufactured. My goal here is to feature some of the best of Impressionist and post impressionist painters from Fine Art America.

I decided to do a once a month feature. I am going to curate a collection of 12 artists, who stands out to me guided by the idea of impressionism or post impressionism today. Since I am starting with April, sometimes I am going to feature more than one artist.  So without further ramblings, I want to kick off my feature for April 2022 with Yolanda Terrell.

As soon as I saw her piece" The bouquet" my curiosity was aroused and I browsed her work. She is in my opinion one of Fine Art America more intriguing impressionist/post-impressionist painters she reminds me a bit of Vincent Van Gogh whom I adore.

 

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Her work has vibrant colors and her eye for color composition is excellent. I love how she does her figures, the elongated arms like in this painting below, it adds such charm and uniqueness. She connect colors, lines, shapes with patterns and tells a story at the same time. Just wonderful! I think Yolanda Terrell is one of Fine Art America finest impressionists. But there are many and I will features someone new every month of the year. So please come back and make sure you subscribe so you won't miss my picks.

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Vincent Van Gogh the human being

Vincent Van Gogh the human being and that is why I love his paintings

Back in 1999 when I first started to paint, I soon also purchased my first book on Vincent Van Gogh.  After reading much about him and his life and also learning about many of his contemporaries, I kept coming back to him. Vincent van Gogh the human being is someone I can relate to.  His childhood, his conflicts with, church and society’s realities were all familiar to me.  I gleaned a lot out of his letters he wrote to his brother Theo. Without his dear brother I think Vincent would have had an impossible time. Sometimes Theo was his only support. Vincent was constantly struggling with this idea that he was not good enough, in his skills. Lamenting about having to improve his drawing, especially his figure drawing.

Van Gogh Flower Garden Ink DrawingMaybe people don’t know this but he drew a lot. Graphite and ink sketches, he did many of them. I love his drawings a lot. Vincent Van Gogh the human being was a sponge, he absorbed the lives of the people he drew. He imbued feelings into places he saw, things he found interesting. Who else could paint old worn out shoes as if they were jewels?  He appeared to me, as a very thoughtful and deep person. Maybe too deep, thinking too much about things. Especially the things that he found unjust. Thinking too much about his short comings.
I see in his paintings much more than a place, a landscape or a face, a person. He really tried to capture the soul and succeeded. What is undeniable to me, is that his shortcoming and his struggle with his technical skills, makes his art so real, so very human to me. It is not academic art but is is salt of this earth.

Vincent van Gogh the human shines through in every one of his paintings and that is what made him such a great artist. Painting at a time where his style was considered unrefined, unacceptable even, a no talent wanna be artist. Society and especially the upper class in Paris  gave him the side eye. Well they snubbed many of the impressionists which led to the establishments of the “Salon des Refusés” which was basically an exhibition of art that was refused by the official  Paris Salon

Theo tried to sell his brother’s works but it was a futile venture.
He did sell ONE PAINTING and It was an oil landscape entitled “The Red Vineyard at Arles”!
His friend and fellow artist Anna Boch bought it for 400 Franc in 1890. It is now in Moscow’s Pushkin Museum of Fine Art.
You can see an image of the painting and read more about Vincent 
https://www.vincentvangogh.org/the-red-vineyard.jsp#prettyPhoto

It really bothers me that the man had to die, for his paintings to be noticed, his talent respected, his work rewarded. The only people that seem to profit now are the ones that had nothing to do with the art’s creation. Isn’t that backwards. 


 

Van Gogh Autumn Colors the end of his Dutch Period

The end of Vincent “Dutch Period”

Vincent Van Gogh brushstrokes detail

Vincent Van Gogh brushstrokes

The above picture and the one below show Vincent’s, what I call bold, fearless brushstrokes and his whimsical inclinations as well. 
Please see my painting Red Poppies As Vincent Would Paint Them. CLICK HERE

Vincent Van Gogh Flower garden 1888

Van Gogh Butterflies and Poppies

Van Gogh Butterflies and Poppies

Other paintings I have done that are for  sale 

Watercolors after Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night

Check out the brushstrokes on this painting

Oil Painting on Linen Wetland Reflections Impressionism

Here is one of my latest paintings.
Just like Vincent I often doubt myself but with this painting I am elated.

Late Summer Thistles Impressionist Oil Painting

If you love floral still life paintings that may remind you of Vincent’s Style,
I humbly encourage you to see this painting of mine. 

Heirloom Roses The Impressionists Oil Painting