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Painting by Ruth Pastine, Inevitability of Truth 6 (Blue Orange) for Malevich ("Inevitability of Truth" Series, oil on canvas on beveled stretcher, 60" x 60" x 2.5", 2015). The image illustrates a key mid-career body of work by Ruth Pastine in the 2010s when she shifted toward abstract color and light investigations that included new formats, geometric forms and more intense and contradictory color combinations and luminosities. This painting, from her "The Inevitability of Truth" series (2015) demonstrates her mining of new color possibilities during this period, with a shifting toward supersaturated hues. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, acquired by museums and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Ruth Pastine. 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 mid-career body of work by Ruth Pastine in the 2010s: her abstract color and light investigations that expanded from prior work to include new formats, geometric forms and color combinations exploring more intense and contradictory luminosities and temperatures. In these paintings, she shifted from monochromatic, largely primary colors to supersaturated hues some critics described as Caribbean (orange, purple, pink, fuchsia, aqua, blue) that shifted across the spectrum, sometimes subtly and sometimes boldly. The paintings employed optical banding at the color-shift areas that represented compressed versions of her earlier expanded color transitions. 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 understand this key body of work, which brought Pastine ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Pastine'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 Ruth Pastine, and the work no longer is viewable, 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.