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Painting by Brenda Zlamany, Portrait #138 (David Hockney) (oil on panel, 39" x 26", 2014). The image illustrates a key and distinct body of work in Brenda Zlamany's career beginning in early 1990s and continuing throughout her career, when she began painting portraits of well-known male artists, reversing centuries of objectification of female subjects and conventional sexual and power dynamics between artist and sitter. This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues in the U.S. and internationally, discussed in major art journals and press publications, and acquired by major art museums.

Artist Brenda Zlamany. Copyright held by the artist.

Brenda Zlamany

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key and distinct body of work in Brenda Zlamany's career beginning in early 1990s and continuing throughout her career: her recognizable painted portraits of well-known male artists, which critics described as provocative deconstructions that reversed centuries of objectification of female subjects and the traditional sexual and power dynamics between artist and sitter. This work was noted for its Old-Master emphasis on paint surface, texture, volume and composition, rather than personality or status. 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 this key body of work, for which she is most known and which attracted national reviews, prominent exhibition and collection. Zlamany'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 Brenda Zlamany 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.