File:Lucas Reiner On Venice Blvd. -12 2010.jpg

Painting by Lucas Reiner, On Venice Blvd. #12 (oil on canvas, 14.5" x 15.5", 2010). The image illustrates a middle career period and body of work in Lucas Reiner's career in the 2000s: his intimate "Los Angeles Trees" painting series. They depict the strangely cut, street-side trees of his native Los Angeles, removed from their surroundings and placed against delicately colored, minimal abstract-expressionist backgrounds, in a manner critics describe as evoking the personality, character and narrative of portraiture. This series of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent venues and reproduced in a monograph, and discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Lucas Reiner. Copyright held by the artist.

Lucas Reiner

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a middle career period and body of work in Lucas Reiner's career in the 2000s, when he began drawing and painting the street-side, largely non-native trees of Los Angeles, particularly noting the strange shapes resulting from the sometimes brutal interventions and functional strictures of modern civilization. The small paintings depict loosely rendered, cropped treetops (that often resemble other things, like clouds or heads of hair), removed from their surroundings and set against delicately colored, minimal abstract-expressionist backgrounds. 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 key series in his art, which brought him wide recognition from art journals, daily press publications, and public institutions. Reiner'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 Lucas Reiner, 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.