File:Amanda Church Man with a Big Heart 2010.jpg

Painting by Amanda Church, Man with a Big Heart (oil on canvas, 72" x 80", 2010). The image illustrates a mid-career period and body of work in Amanda Church's career in the 2000s, when her essentially abstract paintings of biomorphic forms morphed evolved into more complex canvasses with divided, multicolor backgrounds and an interplay of subjects. These compositions often combined curvy, disembodied human-like forms and geometric abstractions—in this case, a small, Mondrian-like grid—in cropped, closer views that mirror the intimacy and abstraction inherent in viewing objects or people at close range. Church's work of this time has been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications.

Artist Amanda Church. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a mid-career period and body of work in Amanda Church's career in the 2000s after her essentially abstract paintings of biomorphic or protozoan forms morphed into more complex canvasses with divided, multicolor backgrounds and an interplay of subjects that included a greater number of protuberances. These compositions often featured curvy, disembodied human-like forms—suggesting limbs, torsos, genitalia, heads or buttocks—together with geometric abstractions in cropped, closer views that mirror the intimacy and abstraction inherent in viewing objects or people at close range. 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 developmental in her art, which brought her ongoing recognition from art journals, press publications and art institutions. Church's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

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