File:Kathleen Kucka Field of Happening 2018.jpg

Painting by Kathleen Kucka, Field of Happening (burns and oil paint on canvas, 70" x 50", 2018). The image illustrates a body of work by Kathleen Kucka in the 2010s: her burn paintings made by using an electric charcoal lighter to burn holes in canvasses and paper. Critics described these paintings as combining minimalism and sensuality, often, as in this case, with a predominantly brown palette and patterns suggesting swarms, swirling, or more geometric forms. This type of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Kathleen Kucka. Copyright held by the artist.

Kathleen Kucka

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later body of work by Kathleen Kucka from the 2010s, when she returned to producing "burn" works to pieces made by using an electric charcoal lighter to burn holes in canvasses and paper. In these later works, she often created an interplay of light and shadow and an illusion of depth by suspending one canvas with holes burned into it over another complementary-hued canvas. Critics described them as balanced between abstraction and a wide range of various allusive suggestions. These paintings were dominated by burns in kinetic concentric, swirling or linear patterns that evoke both minimalism and natural phenomena. 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 these later developments and bodies of work, which brought Kucka ongoing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Kucka'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 Kathleen Kucka, 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.