Barbara McCann Signed Ltd Ed Serigraph CONTEMPLATION

Boldly-colorful limited edition serigraph on canvas by the ever-popular Barbara McCann entitled "Contemplation". As usual with McCann's work, the colors are vibrant and rich. This is numbered and hand-signed by the artist. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size is 18 1/2-inches by 22 1/2-inches. Ready for framing and hanging, it will impress freinds and family. This canvas is new and has never been framed. Biography The Art of Barbara McCann "I am obsessed with light and shadow," observes artist Barbara McCann, whose lush, sensuous images are testaments to these visual preoccupations. The people and places McCann depicts are studies in brilliance, shadow, and kaleidoscopic color. Her love of landscape, architecture, and figure painting, use of the palette knife, and her impressionistic treatment of subjects are important features of her style. Landscape painting has a long and venerated history. Prior to the advent of photography, the only access people had to enjoying distant panoramas was either to travel to the locales or to view paintings created by artists who had been there. The images offered a wealth of vistas -- from the sublime to the exotic. Barbara McCann's landscapes and seascapes feature sights that exude a sense of warmth and vibrancy. Sky and water are jewel tones of sapphire and turquoise; stuccoed buildings are blazing white with blood red roofs; foliage is a riot of lush greens and mingled hues of red, pink, and amber. Shadows are knife-edged, their ebony denseness soft and velvety. Everything -- the sailboats, the buildings, the land, and the people -- is illuminated by strong, clear light. The brightness of the sunlight, which is in evidence in McCann's interior scenes as well as her exterior scenes, hints at specific geographic locales, especially the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. McCann notes that the vision she commits to canvas is not an actual record of a particular site. This is her personal departure from traditional landscape painting, for painters often recreate a moment they are witness to. Instead, McCann finds that fragments and details of places come together, and the finished work is an intimation of, rather than a statement about, a scene. McCann's use of the palette knife adds a textural level to her images, which contributes to the overall impression of liveliness. In some ways, she doesn't paint so much as sculpt a scene. Her heavy impasto technique imbues objects and figures with an air of solidity and dimension. The palette knife is well-suited to her style, which is reminiscent of impressionism. Impressionists changed the tenor of representational work by concentrating on the feelings a scene evoked rather than striving to accurately reproduce the actual elements of the scene. While a tree, building, or vase of flowers essentially was still recognizable, the impressionists would utilize color and light to transform an object, scene, or person into something that was suggested rather than portrayed realistically. Barbara McCann's love of light, use of a rich, saturated color palette, and heavily textured impasto technique mark her as an heir to the impressionists' ideals. Her belief that a painting is not a faithful recreation of a place or thing, but rather a distillation of a mood or ambiance she associates with a scene or object, further establishes her link to impressionism. When questioned, McCann cites both abstract and impressionist artists as influences. DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR LARGE ART PURCHASES.