File:Kara Maria So Solve the Mystic Sun 2016.jpg

Painting by Kara Maria, So Solve the Mystic Sun, (ocelot) (acrylic on canvas, 60" x 60", 2016). The image illustrates a key mid-career by Kara Maria career from the latter 2000s and 2010s, when she shifted toward emotionally and politically charged paintings that employed detailed, realistic renderings alongside her customary mix of abstract and Pop art gestures. Her subjects included war iconography (soldiers, fighter jets, camouflage patterns), provocatively posed women appropriated from pornography, consumer culture imagery (SUVs, gas pumps), and socio-political issues, such as the environment or declining biodiversity, as in this work. These paintings were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and collected by museums.

Artist Kara Maria. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career body of work by Kara Maria in the latter 2000s and early 2010s: her emotionally and politically charged paintings incorporating detailed, realistic renderings of animals, war iconography, pornographic appropriations and consumer culture imagery alongside assorted abstract and Pop art gestures. These works often conflated military violence with the sexual exploitation of women and also addressed environmental and other social concerns, such as endangered species. 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 understand this key developmental stage and body of work, which brought Maria initial recognition through exhibitions in major venues, coverage by major critics and publications. Maria's work of this type and this series, as well as this specific work, are 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 Kara Maria, 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.