William Michael Yenkevich

A Deep Passion For Poetic Feeling And Beauty

A lifetime of development as an artist, I paint in the Traditional Realist style using the academic approach of the Old Masters of the 15th thru the 19th centuries.

My ideal style is based on sound craftsmanship and techniques of the past combined with my own findings.

As an artist, as did the great masters of the past, the highest triumph an artist can achieve is the artistic genius of perfect reproduction of the subject represented with a deep passion of poetic feeling and beauty, ideal and superior in quality and craftsmanship.

I see only the beauty in art, and, for me, art is beautiful. I have accepted the infinite pains like the old masters in selecting and preparing methods, materials, and concepts in creating a painting. I deal with preconceived, clearly thought-out, well-designed pictorial projects. Every phase of the painting is developed almost according to a schedule and carried out to the highest perfection of form and the greatest clarity and luminosity of color.