File:D.Guerrero-Maciá TheBiggerPicture 2008.jpg

Painting by Diana Guerrero-Maciá, The Bigger Picture (wool, vinyl, leather and burlap on canvas, 72" x 64", 2008). The image illustrates an earlier stage in Diana Guerrero-Maciá's career from the late 1990s into the 2000s: her hybrid, text-based, hand-sewn textile works and collages, sometimes likened visually to ransom notes and commercial signage. These works differently stitched, colored and shaped letter forms and words reworked quotes from various cultural sources in challenging arrangements with odd, meaning-altering word mash-ups or breaks, in this case and show, exploring painting conventions invoking the sublime: landscape, portrait, narrative, abstraction. This large-scale painting works like concrete poetry, creating a visual mountain out of the letters that comprise the word "mountains." This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Diana Guerrero-Maciá. Copyright held by the artist.

Diana Guerrero-Maciá

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating earlier-stage paintings of Diana Guerrero-Maciá's career extending from the late 1990s into the 2000s, when she produced text-based, hand-sewn textile works and collages that reviews compared to ransom notes, commercial signage and the work of artists such as Ed Ruscha and Jenny Holzer. These works were made up largely of words with differently stitched, colored and shaped letter forms, which reworked quotes from films, songs and literature, newspaper headlines and colloquial speech in challenging arrangements with odd, meaning-altering word mash-ups or breaks. 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 stage of her work, which brought her recognition through exhibitions in major venues, coverage by major critics in publications, and museum commissions. Guerrero-Maciá's work of this type and this work 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 Diana Guerrero-Maciá, 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.