File:Andrew Spence Untitled Brown-Violet 2018.jpg

Painting by Andrew Spence, Untitled Brown/Violet (oil on canvas, 40" x 35", 2018). The image illustrates a later stage and body of work in Andrew Spence's career from the 2010s when he produced more linear, minimalist paintings, often suggesting architectural schematics or scaffolding. These paintings use spare lines and shapes to suggest layered or shifting two-dimensional planes within or on the periphery of canvasses, often creating optical effects as in this work, which plays with the perception of the picture plane edge). This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Andrew Spence. Copyright held by the artist.

Andrew Spence (artist)

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later stage and body of work in Andrew Spence's career from the 2010s: his more linear, minimalist paintings which suggest contemporary signage, architectural schematics or scaffolding, and further disguise his original inspirations compared to his earlier work. These paintings continue Spence's longstanding explorations of picture, object, architecture and design, using spare lines and shapes to suggest layered or shifting two-dimensional planes within or on the periphery of canvasses. This body of work has pushed his art further in the direction of purely formal concerns. 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 this later phase of his career, which brought continuing recognition through exhibitions coverage by critics in various publications. Spence'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 Andrew Spence, 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.