File:Melissa Miller Farm 2002.jpg

Painting by Melissa Miller, Farm (oil on canvas, 35" x 86", 2002). The image illustrates a later phase and body of work in Melissa Miller's career that began in the early 2000s, when she shifted from fantastical and mythic scenes to tableaux combining farm and exotic animals that conveyed wary, almost-lazy calm and indifference and alluded to themes such as tenuous relationships among strangers, immigration, alienation, harmony and integration. This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues in the U.S., widely discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by major museums.

Artist Melissa Miller. Copyright held by the artist.

Melissa Miller (artist)

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later phase and body of work in Melissa Miller's career that began in the early 2000s, when she shifted from fantastical and mythic scenes to tableaux combining farm and exotic animals that conveyed wary, almost-lazy calm and indifference and alluded to themes such as tenuous relationships among strangers, immigration, alienation, harmony and integration. These works were unique in her oeuvre for employing rigorously structured, frieze-like compositions of flattened landscapes rather than illusionistic space; reviewers compared them to Japanese screens and Persian miniatures, Giorgio Morandi still lifes, and pre-Renaissance groupings of people. 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 the evolution of her mature work, which attracted exhibition selections in traveling shows, national reviews, and museum acquisitions. Miller'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 Melissa Miller, 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.