File:Katy Schimert Bent Leg (Egyptian) 2001.jpg

Sculpture by Katy Schimert, Bent Leg (Egyptian) (terra-cotta with black onyx luster, 18.5" x 16" x 8", 2001). The image illustrates a mid-career stage and body of work in Katy Schimert's art in the 2000s when she produced figurative sculpture, exhibited in installations of diverse media. This sculptural work explored the impact of emotional conflict and historical events such as war on human consciousness. The image shows ceramic body parts and internal organs glazed with an opalescent, gunmetal-colored finish which she displayed on pedestals like specimens from a forensic medicine procedural or museum artifacts offered for contemplation (in this case), and reworked as an installation where they were displayed in a pile of seventy that suggested carnage, a mass grave or classical discards. This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Katy Schimert. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a mid-career stage and body of work in Katy Schimert's art in the 2000s: her figurative sculpture, which appeared in exhibitions and installations of diverse media that explored the impact of emotional conflict and historical events such as war on human consciousness. Her sculptural work consisted of ceramic body parts and internal organs—often glazed with an opalescent, gunmetal-colored finish and displayed on pedestals like museum specimens or more disturbingly in piles—large cast-paper or bronze heads, and a full figure. 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, distinct stage in her career, which brought early ongoing through exhibitions in major venues and coverage by critics in major publications and books. Schimert'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 Katy Schimert, 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.