File:Richard Loving Hathor's Gate Falling Right 1977.jpg

Painting by Richard Loving, Hathor's Gate Falling Right (oil on canvas, 56" x 76", 1977). The painting illustrates an earlier stage of Richard Loving's work in the 1970s, after he shifted toward a style of lyrical abstraction. These large-scale oil paintings feature his signature markmaking: bright, obsessive patterns of restless lines, strokes, dots and dashes on richly colored, mottled color fields. These works largely employed flat, organic shapes sometimes configured in an aerial map-like compositions, as in this work from his "Gate" series. This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Richard Loving. Copyright held by the artist's estate.

Richard Loving (artist)

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating an earlier stage and body of work in Richard Loving's career as he shifted to a style of lyrical abstraction in the mid-1970s: his large-scale oil on canvas works, which featured bright patterns of obsessive and varied, restless line, strokes, dots and dashes superimposed on mottled color fields. These works largely employed an organic abstraction that sometimes suggests aerial maps or views. A central element is Loving's markmaking, which served as an indicator of time, human intention and energy and source of rhythm in his compositions. 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 work, which led to Loving's signature style of "Allusive Abstraction" in the 1980s, as well as its reception and impact. Loving's work of this type and this work is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Richard Loving, 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.