File:Harriet Korman untitled 2016.jpg

Painting by Harriet Korman (untitled, oil on canvas, 40" x 52", 2016). The image illustrates a key later period and body of work in Harriet Korman's career during the 2010s, when she produced paintings that contemplated the basic problem of the division of a painting surface, using largely fixed, simple formats, which she complicated or skewed through her use of color. In this case, she employs a quadrant-based configuration with a central cross of colored lines and right-angled bands of chromatically rich color, suggesting an update of Albers' Homage to the Square series. 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 later period and body of work in Harriet Korman's career during the 2010s: her series of paintings contemplating the division of the painting surface using largely fixed, simple formats, which she complicated or skewed through her use of color. These works employed a symmetrical format of a central diamond subdivided into rectangles or triangles or, in this case, a quadrant-based configuration with a central cross of colored lines and right-angled bands of chromatically rich color; they have been likened to work by artists ranging from Frank Stella and Josef Albers to Paul Klee and Mary Heilmann. This work differs from Korman's prior work by including areas of plain white paint and hand-drawn colored lines and outlines of varying width. 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, pivotal 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.