File:John Dilg I Felt So Symbolic Yesterday 2016.jpg

Painting by John Dilg, I Felt So Symbolic Yesterday (C.C.) (oil on canvas, 16" x 20", 2016). The painting illustrates a late mature period in John Dilg's work in the late 2010s, when he fully established the idiosyncratic, archetypal landscape mode he is known for, characterized by a seamless, flat, dry, scumbled paint application and limited palette of celadon greens, pale blues, and sandy or greyed browns that critics say evokes Midwest prairies, the veiled light created by misty Pacific Northwest rains, and deep geologic time. This work and similar works gained Dilg even wider notice and were publicly exhibited in prominent venues and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist John Dilg. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a late mature period in John Dilg's career: his late 2010s work which fully established the idiosyncratic, archetypal landscape mode he is known for, characterized by a seamless, flat, dry, scumbled paint application and limited palette of celadon greens, pale blues, and sandy or greyed browns that critics say evokes Midwest prairies, the veiled light created by misty Pacific Northwest rains, and deep geologic time. Critics describe these small-scaled paintings as "cartoon-visionary landscapes," and simultaneously spiritual and "quasi-mystical," enigmatic, elegant and whimsical. 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 the fully mature work which Dilg is known, its reception and its impact. Dilg'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 John Dilg, 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.