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Painting by Brenda Zlamany, Portrait #46 (Red Chuck) (oil on linen on panel, four panels, each 24" x 24", 2000–01). The image illustrates a distinct body of Brenda Zlamany's work from the 2000s, when she began producing her multi-paneled "Color Studies" series, which explored figuration and abstraction through configured monochrome panels and portraits of public figures. This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues in the U.S. and internationally, discussed in major art journals and press publications.

Artist Brenda Zlamany. Copyright held by the artist.

Brenda Zlamany

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a distinct body of Brenda Zlamany's work from the 2000s: her multi-paneled "Color Studies" series, which explored figuration and abstraction through configured monochrome panels and portraits of public figures, such as Chuck Close, Evander Holyfield, and John Yau. Critics described this work as riffing on modernist color theory, rectangles (e.g., the boxing ring), negative space, and Close's use of repetition and the grid, and emphasizing the minimal nature of Zlamany's work, which eschews architecture and landscape elements and iconographic cues in favor of composition, proportion, ground color and manner of representation as means of conveying narrative or psychological content. 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 this key body of work and artistic strategy, which attracted national reviews and prominent exhibition. Zlamany'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 Brenda Zlamany 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.