File:Kara Maria Un Jeu 1999.jpg

Painting by Kara Maria, Un Jeu (acrylic on canvas, 39" x 51", 1999). The image illustrates a key early body of work in Kara Maria's career from the late 1990s and early 2000s, when she produced largely abstract, multilayered paintings described as post-Pop Art that featured a cacophony of Pop art and abstract symbols, motifs and gestures, including elegant color patterns, raucous palettes, graphic cartoon-like representations, and comic-strip explosions and speed lines. This painting incorporates forms suggesting television interruption patterns, looping arabesques, silhouettes of rabbits and pistols, and black dots suggesting either droppings or ammunition pellets. These paintings were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Kara Maria. Copyright held by the artist.

Kara Maria

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early body of work in Kara Maria's career in the late 1990s and early 2000s: her largely abstract paintings that were described as post-Pop Art works whose otherwise elegant color patterns included raucous palettes, graphic cartoon-like representations, comic-strip explosions and speed lines. These works work arose in the aftermath of the 1980s and 1990s postmodern ethos of mixing styles and generally featured a cacophony of Pop art symbols and motifs and abstract painterly gestures. 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 developmental stage and body of work, which brought Maria initial recognition through exhibitions in major venues, coverage by major critics and publications. Maria's work of this type and this series, as well as this specific work, are 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 Kara Maria, 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.