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Robert Yasuda, Harmony (acrylic polymer on fabric on wood, 80" x 62", 2005). The image illustrates a later period and body of work in Robert Yasuda's career beginning in the 2000s, when he produced lyrical and luminous paintings on hand-crafted and shaped panels, often using pearlescent and iridescent interference paints. Works such as this one thwarted geometric expectations to otherworldly effect through bowed supports, protruding edges, and contoured or feathered corners that suggested impermanence and motion. The effect stood in contrast to Yasuda's harmonious color treatment, in this cased mottled, shifting shades of blue, green, and purple. This body of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent museums and venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Robert Yasuda. Copyright held by the artist.

Robert Yasuda

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later period and body of work in Robert Yasuda's career beginning in the 2000s: his lyrical and luminous paintings on hand-crafted and shaped panels. These works played with expectations, thwarted their geometric aspects to otherworldly effect through bowed supports, protruding edges, gentle curves, clefts and contoured or feathered corners that suggested impermanence and motion; critics related the panels to the aerodynamic shaping of surfboards, part of Yasuda's experience in his native Hawaii. They also contrasted the disturbances in panel shapes with Yasuda's harmonious color treatment, often mottled shades of blue, grey, green, warm pink or gold created with interference paints yielding intense, shifting silvery tones that suggested the pearlescence of interior abalone shells or the iridescence of butterflies and exotic fish. 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 visualize a key development in his art, which brought ongoing recognition from art journals, daily press publications, and museums. Yasuda'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 Robert Yasuda, 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.