File:John Moore Thursday 1980.jpg

Painting by John Moore, Thursday (oil on canvas, 92" x 141", 1980). The image illustrates a key body of work in the realist painter John Moore's career beginning in the late 1970s, when he began painting interior and studio views that often looked out window onto urban scenes. This work concerned itself most with light, color, shape—often variations on squares—and mood. In this frontally composed work, Moore portrayed a mysteriously still, sparsely furnished loft in hushed light, centered by two symmetrical windows overlooking a city panorama, playing off contrasts between the observed and formal, perceived versus depicted size, and inside versus outside. This body of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist John Moore. 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 body of work in the realist painter John Moore's career beginning in the late 1970s: his interior and studio views, which were an extension of his earlier still lifes. These often-frontal compositions frequently included window views onto urban scenes while maintaining a focus on color, light, shape (often variations on squares) and mood, and developing new interests in relationships between the observed and formal, perceived versus depicted size, and inside versus outside. In many works, Moore has highlighted the composite nature of his images, placing scrims of flowers, fencing or other foreground objects in front of panoramic views, playing up the contrasts between natural and urban worlds. 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 understand this early stage and body of work, which brought Moore ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. John Moore'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 John Moore, and the work no longer is viewable, 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.