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Beyond Frontiers | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Cécile Ganne. Item made of synthetic
Beyond Frontiers | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Cécile Ganne. Item made of synthetic
Beyond Frontiers | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Cécile Ganne. Item made of synthetic
Beyond Frontiers | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Cécile Ganne. Item made of synthetic

Created and Sold by Cécile Ganne

Cécile Ganne

Beyond Frontiers - Paintings

Price $3,300

Beyond Frontiers

I started working o this large piece (48x36) at the beginning of confinement this past spring. The foreground is purposefully dark and solemn while the series of fields and the layers of paint encourage the gaze to lift and rise up towards the horizon. This painting represents the English countryside or the green pastures of Normandy but as I was working on it, I started thinking about this idea of divisons and borders between different parts of the world. We are often so focused on divisions that we lose sight of the bigger picture i.e. what constitutes our humanness, our sense of belonging ,and connectedness through community: our pains, griefs, joys, loves, disappointments, and heartaches.

Additionally, this large piece was awarded an honorable mention as part of the online exhibit "Art in Shelter". This is what he said about my work:
Caspar David Friedrich, the 19th Century German painter, wrote ‘The painter should paint not only what he sees in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what he has in front of him’. This sums up where so many landscape painters go wrong – they do not venture beyond painting a mere view of somewhere and so their works fail in that essential of Art – to illuminate some aspect of the understanding of our lives. This painting stopped me in my tracks – I stood on the edge of the scene, surveying the Weltlandschaft that stretched out before me and then ventured slowly into that world, taking me through the visible and into an unknown beyond.

Modern art, contemporary, landscape, Normandy, England, fields, frontiers, edges Palette knife, oil, canvas,

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Item Beyond Frontiers
Created by Cécile Ganne
As seen in Private Residence, Belmont, MA
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Cécile Ganne
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Re-imagined Landscapes

Painting for me is an intuitive transcription of a wave of emotion that traverses me when I encounter a view that strikes my soul. These views often take the form of landscapes but I think of landscapes as a loose word for any type of horizon where subjects emerge and engage the onlooker. For me, in fact, each landscape, sometimes imagined, re-imagined, or even dreamed, is a window of experimentation with different materials, shapes, colors, and textures. I primarily work with oil and cold wax because it allows me to play with negative spaces and to let serendipitous alchemies of colors morph under my palette knife. Every work is an opportunity to work out a puzzle that I see at the center of each composition. In my art, I focus on fluid spaces, vibrant colors, and timeless compositions: modern paintings with a French eye!