File:Rodney Carswell Black and White Cross Encircled by Red 1988.jpg

Painting, Black and White Cross Encircled by Red (oil, wax, canvas, wood, 42” x 49" x 3.5", 1988) by artist Rodney Carswell. Illustrates a key mature period and type of work in Carswell's career as he gained widespread recognition, in which he used postmodern shaped canvasses and a modernist grammar of geometric shapes in his paintings. These new works were exhibited and reviewed extensively.

Exhibition catalogue: Renaissance Society Chicago, 1995. Copyright held by the artist.

Rodney Carswell

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key element and critical moment in the artist's practice and technique: his unorthodox use of postmodern shaped canvasses and modernist geometric forms, in the 1980–1990s. 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 method in his art. Carswell's work of this type and this work are discussed extensively in the article and have been discussed in detail by numerous art critics.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Carswell, 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.