File:Mernet Larsen Intersection 2020.jpg

Painting by Mernet Larsen, Intersection (after El Lissitzky) (acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 46.75" x 63", 2020). The image illustrates a mid-career body of work by Mernet Larsen in the 2020s: her idiosyncratic, disorienting narrative painting series focused on compositions directly referencing Constructivist works by artist El Lissitzky. Like her earlier work, the series depicted mundane moments in unfamiliar ways, employing reconfigured perspectives and spaces, angular abstract forms and bisecting planes to create humorous or ominous narratives, such as this work depicting a man in a wheelchair walking a dog while overlooking a vortex-like, textured, aerial view of a truck and farmland. This painting and type of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Mernet Larsen. Copyright held by the artist.

Mernet Larsen

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later body of work in Mernet Larsen's career from the 2020s, when she focused her idiosyncratic, disorienting narrative painting on a series of works whose compositions directly referenced works by constructivist artist El Lissitzky. Critics described the series as rendering the mundane unfamiliar and metaphysical, with angular abstract forms and bisecting planes creating a view of reality exploded from within, while reconfiguring the heavier philosophical underpinnings of Constructivism in ways more attuned to wit and wonder. They yielded narrative that ranged from humorous to ominous to cosmic. 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 Larsen ongoing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Larsen'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 Mernet Larsen, 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.