File:Eddie Martinez When We Were In Good Hands 2017.jpg

Painting by Eddie Martinez, , When We Were In Good Hands (oil, spray paint, enamel, collaged canvas and silkscreen ink on canvas, 72" x 108", 2016–17). The image illustrates a later body of work in Eddie Martinez's painting career: his multiple series of boldly colored amalgamations of abstraction and figuration with the immediacy and the speed of drawings. These were painted featured less textural surface build-up and elements, often originating as small Sharpie drawings. He often worked in themed series, as in the case of this work from the "Cowboy Town" show (2017), which features forms emerging out of chaos, reflecting a dystopian response to the contemporary U.S. sociopolitical climate. This series of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Eddie Martinez. Copyright held by the artist.

Eddie Martinez (artist)

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later period in the career of Eddie Martinez in the latter 2010s, when his paintings featured boldly colored amalgamations of abstraction (reminiscent of the cartoonish forms recall Miró and Picasso) and figuration emphasizing the immediacy and the speed of drawings. These were painted with less textural surface build-up and more white space, and often originated as small Sharpie drawings that he enlarged as black silkscreens on canvas, sometimes treating the lines like a blueprint and others times disregarding or obscuring them entirely with oils, enamel, and spray paint. 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 a later phase in his art, which continued to receive attention from art journals, daily press publications, and museums. Martinez'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 Eddie Martinez, 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.