Painting by Joanna Pousette-Dart, 3 Part Variation #7 (acrylic on canvas on wood panels, 67" x 93", 2012–3). The image illustrates a key later period and body of work in Joanna Pousette-Dart's career in the 2000s, when she refined her shaped-canvas works into the mature form for which she is best known. These works emphasize drawing and line (often calligraphic), thinly applied, subtly modulating colors associated with the Southwest, and eggshell-like surfaces. Their curved-edge, concave and convex containing and interior shapes evoke both natural and manmade forms; the supports are interlocked, nested, or stacked large-to-small or small-to-large, and imply senses of gravity or buoyancy, containment or expansiveness, sequence or disruption, movement, and panorama. This work and the series of works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Joanna Pousette-Dart. Copyright held by the artist.

Joanna Pousette-Dart

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later period and body of work in Joanna Pousette-Dart's career in the 2000s: her mature shaped-canvas works. These works emphasize drawing and line, shifts between contour and volume, transitions of form, the meeting of planes, and paintings as flat, opaque objects to a greater degree than prior work. Their curved-edge, concave and convex supports and interior shapes are interlocked, nested, or stacked large-to-small or small-to-large and imply senses of gravity or buoyancy, containment or expansiveness, sequence or disruption, movement, and panorama. They are echoed in her interior shapes, and together, they evoke both natural and manmade forms in dynamic arrangements that suggest a world never at rest. 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 visualize a key body of work she is most known for, which brought her greatest recognition from art journals, daily press publications, and museums. Pousette-Dart'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 Joanna Pousette-Dart, 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.