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Painting by Amy Sillman, Split 2 (oil and acrylic on canvas, 75" x 66", 2020). The image illustrates a key early body of work in Amy Sillman's career in the 2010s and 2020s, when she produced large-scale, improvisational canvases and paper works that combined layers of silk-screened polka-dot passages, calligraphic swoops, stripes, brushed stains of color, and hints of figuration. Works such as this one, painted during a period plagued by the COVID pandemic, employ askew compositions and evoke a sense of shifting ground or things looming or tottering over. In exhibition, this body of paintings was juxtaposed with a body of small, delicate flower still lifes that were painted while in pandemic-driven seclusion. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by a major museum.

Artist Amy Sillman. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of paintings in Amy Sillman's career in the 2010s and 2020s: her large-scale, improvisational canvases and paper works, which combined layers of silk-screened polka-dot passages, calligraphic swoops, stripes, brushed stains of color, and hints of figuration. Reviews described these works as possessing slightly askew compositions that evoked a sense of things looming or tottering over, or of shifting ground. In exhibitions, she juxtaposed these paintings at times with a variety of other works, including animations, zines, and small still life paintings. 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 understand this later stage and body of work, which brought Sillman further recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Sillman's work of this type and this series 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 Amy Sillman, 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.