File:Richard Loving Catalysis 1991.jpg

Painting by Richard Loving, Catalysis (oil on canvas, 54" x 86", 1991). The painting illustrates a mature stage and body of work in Richard Loving's career in the 1990s when he increasingly incorporated symbols and real-world allusions into his characteristic lyrical abstraction. These paintings combine dense, obsessive markmaking, patterning and symbols, often placed within interior borders or portals that suggest map-like landscapes or ambiguous, theatrical spaces that shift between diffuseness and definition. Critics have characterized them as romantic in their attempts to convey the physical properties of ephemeral sensory impressions through a balance between flux and order. This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a mature stage and body of work in Richard Loving's career: his 1990s paintings which increasingly incorporated a wide range of symbols and real-world allusions into his characteristic lyrical abstraction. Loving's work of this time continued to feature bright patterns of obsessive markmaking, in addition to and sense of inner illumination and interior borders or portals. They resulted in ambiguous, theatrical spaces that emphasized a contrast between diffuseness and definition, through which Loving sought to fix the physical properties of ephemeral sensory impressions. They presaged Loving's late-career shift toward more representational imagery. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this key mature phase in his work, its reception and impact. Loving's work of this type and this work is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

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