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Painting by Paul Winstanley, Art School 28, oil on linen, 90cm x 60cm, 2014). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Paul Winstanley's career from the 2010s: his ""Art School" series of paintings of anonymous, vacated art-school studios and classrooms, based on his own photographs. The monochrome, vertical, compositions use a grisaille technique that draws upon aspects of 17th-century Dutch interior painting and geometric abstraction. The images consist of planes of white and gradations of gray punctuated by identifiable details of art-school activity: improvised partitioned spaces, battered and paint-dripped walls and floors, plastered-over drill holes, baseboard heaters, well-used sinks and random stackable chairs. Critics focused on their painterly nuance and subtle dramatisation of light. Works in this series were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in art journals and press publications, and acquired by major museums.

Artist Paul Winstanley. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Paul Winstanley's career dating from the 2010s, when he produced his "Art School" series of paintings based on his own monograph of photographs taken throughout the United Kingdom of anonymous, vacated art-school studios and classrooms. They consist of monochrome, vertical, compositions generally painted from multiple photographs in a grisaille technique that draw upon aspects of 17th-century Dutch interior painting and geometric abstraction. Critics described their bare, perspectival views as suggestive of an in-between place of history and possibility and their absence and stillness as occasions for heightened painterly nuance and the subtle dramatisation of light. 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 major later body of work, which brought Winstanley ongoing recognition through museum acquisitions, prominent exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Winstanley'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 Paul Winstanley, 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 working of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.