File:Arturo Herrera Untitled 1998.jpg

Collage by Arturo Herrera, Untitled (mixed media and collage on paper, 30,5 x 22,9 cm, 1998). The image illustrates a key body of work from throughout Arturo Herrera's career beginning, during which he has produced collage works that intertwine pop iconography, gestural marks and nonrepresentational shapes and balance between abstraction and figuration. His early work, like this one, centered on small, handcrafted series of collages in which he cut, layered and juxtaposed fragments from advertisements, fairy tales—and in this case—coloring books and cartoons, with painted marks and abstract shapes. In these works, his splicing and destruction of the original material created often bizarre hybrids and subverted its childhood innocence, evoking darker realms alluding to violence and sexuality. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Arturo Herrera. Copyright held by the artist.

Arturo Herrera

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work from throughout Arturo Herrera's career since the 1990s: his collage works, which intertwine bits of pop iconography, gestural marks and nonrepresentational shapes using pictorial strategies of fragmentation, repetition, effacement and dislocation. The resulting imagery is balanced between abstraction and often barely legible figuration, detached from inherent narratives yet seemingly familiar that engages memory, fantasy and the unconscious private interpretive schemes of viewers, evoking a multiplicity of references and readings. 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 fundamental body of work in his overall art, which brought Herrera early and ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Herrera'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 Arturo Herrera, 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.