Vincent Smith
Village in Benin Africa - African American Artist Paints Africa in the 1970s, 1974
Collage, Pastel on Black Paper
10 1/4 × 15 17/20 in / 26 × 40.3 cm
$ 7,000.00
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This is Post-Post-Impressionist, Post-Expressionist, Post- Fauve depiction of a West African landscape by an African American artist. It is characterized by flat pattens of bold color and distorted shapes that...
This is Post-Post-Impressionist, Post-Expressionist, Post- Fauve depiction of a West African landscape by an African American artist. It is characterized by flat pattens of bold color and distorted shapes that evoke an emotional attachment to the artist's roots. Three traditional beehive huts sit on the horizon line and are counterbalanced by a highly stylized setting sun. Vincent D. Smith incorporates a silhouetted color photograph of a heard of grazing water buffalo to the extreme left of the composition. The work is signed Vincent lower right as a nod to Vincent Van Gogh. Although there may be some references to Van Gogh's highly emotion uses of punchy color and simplification and flatness of the picture plane, Vincent D. Smith has forged his own highly pictorial style and color palette.