File:Stone Roberts InteriorLight 2002.jpg

Painting by Stone Roberts, Interior Light (oil on linen, 72" x 96", 2002). The image illustrates a key body of work Stone Roberts's art beginning in the early 1980s when he began producing large-scale figurative works. As in this painting, these works often combined influences including the European masters and Greek mythology (here, the myth of Danaë), a detailed interest in conveying the look and feel of Southern gentility and timeless Manhattan apartment life, and the use of family and friends as models (in this case, and often, Roberts's wife). The work demonstrates Roberts's balancing of detail—the orchestration of decorative details, spatial settings, light and pose—with overall effect. 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 figurative paintings, which and conceptual history paintings, which have been compared to European Old Master and neoclassicist art for their mastery of materials, precision of form and composition, complex play of light and detail, and heightened sense of texture and color. This work combines traditional technique with an equally strong contemporary inclination toward enigmatic or incongruous elements and formal choices, raising unresolved questions involving action, time, memory and history. Critics suggest that Roberts expresses a desire to retain or retrieve timeless values (aesthetics, beauty, skill) that contemporary art seemingly rejected, as well as peculiarly American experiences, objects and ways of life. 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 initial and 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.