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Painting by Frank Piatek, Untitled, oil on canvas, 1967. The painting illustrates an early example of Frank Piatek's signature tubular works from the late 1960s, when he first developed this longstanding vocabulary and gained national and local recognition while an undergraduate at the School of the Art Institute. This body of work is significant for its hovering between abstraction and figuration, which carved out a new position, sidestepping the limiting dictums against real-world reference to form and illusion, content, or abstraction in dominant artistic orders of the day, such minimalism and Imagism. This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Frank Piatek. Copyright held by the artist.

Frank Piatek

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a very early painting within Frank Piatek's most well-known body of work: his signature tubular works from the late 1960s and early 1970s, first developed —and destined to be a longstanding vocabulary—while he was an undergraduate at the School of the Art Institute. These works carved out a new position hovering between abstraction and figuration, sidestepping limiting dictums of minimalism and Imagism with twisting, patterned forms emerged out of dark, packed, enigmatic space that in their suggestive ambiguity, simultaneously evoked organic, man-made and symbolic forms. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this key developmental phase in his signature work, which extended his national and local recognition, as well as its reception and impact. Piatek'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 Frank Piatek, 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.