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Painting by Harriet Korman (untitled, oil on canvas, 72" x 72", 1996). The image illustrates a key mid-career period and body of work from Harriet Korman, after she turned to oil paints, livelier color and greater movement between styles in her work. This work refigured her older use of the signature Minimalist grid into a looser, more tactile style, like textile design. These paintings emerge out of monochromatic grounds built of layered color, onto which Korman painted notational dashes, squares and wavy strokes of contrasting color that suggest disintegrating grids or plaids, thatches of grass or abstract calligraphy. This work has been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Harriet Korman. Copyright held by the artist.

Harriet Korman

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career period and body of work from Harriet Korman in the 1980s and 1990s, after she turned to oil paints, using livelier color, fleet paint application and greater movement between styles in her work. This work refigured her older Minimalist-inflected grids into a looser, more tactile textile-like designs that emerge out of monochromatic grounds built of layered color with dashes, squares and wavy strokes that suggest disintegrating grids, plaids, or abstract calligraphy; critics have described her approach as controlled spontaneity. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize a key phase in her art, which brought continuing recognition from major art journals, daily press publications, and museums. Korman's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Harriet Korman, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.