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Painting by Stone Roberts, English Forcer Still Life (oil on linen, 27" x 36", 2005). The image illustrates a key body of work in Stone Roberts's art dating from the early 1980s when he began producing tabletop still lifes of recurrent objects such as fruit, flowers, and dining ware. As in this painting, these works combine Dutch old-masters aesthetics, light and detail with a contemporary sensibility, evidenced here by Roberts's inclusion of more personal, enigmatic objects and incongruous details (one sliced piece of fruit) amid an otherwise formal setting. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Stone Roberts. Copyright held by the artist.

Stone Roberts

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key, longstanding body of work in Stone Roberts's career: his realistic still lifes of fruit, flowers, everyday object and formal dining ware which blend Dutch Old Master approaches to form, composition, light and compressed space with a contemporary sense of whimsy and ambiguity in their choice of elements, arrangement and expression. While employing a classical faithfulness to description in this work, Roberts pushes the work beyond realism with aspects such as incongruous modern objects, larger-than-life-size scaling, high-key color palettes, dramatic pictorial relationships and differently lit elements within sometimes-overflowing compositions. 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 understand this key body of work, which brought Roberts ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Roberts'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 Stone Roberts, 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.