File:Xiaoze Xie November 5, 2004. N.Y.T. (Bush Cabinet 2nd Term) 2008.jpg

Painting by Xiaoze Xie, November 5, 2004. N.Y.T. (Bush Cabinet 2nd Term) (oil on linen, 70" x 110.5", 2008). The painting illustrates a mid-career body of work in Xiaoze Xie's oeuvre in which he produced images based on news photographs to make critical commentary and reflect on cause and effect and the staging of news events. This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues worldwide, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Xiaoze Xie. Copyright held by the artist.

Xiaoze Xie

Entire artwork

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work Xie's mid-career, during the later 2000s: his large-scale depiction of news photographs, through which he made critical commentary and reflected on cause and effect and the staging of news events. These works, which developed out of his "Newspaper" paintings, most frequently portrayed Chinese leaders and moments during the Bush administration in brushy ink-on-rice-paper and oil works during turbulent world events. 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 extension of his previous work, its reception and impact. Xie'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 Xiaoze Xie, 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.