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Painting by Colleen Randall, Mercurial (oil on canvas, 82" x 75", 1999).The image illustrates a key early body of work in Colleen Randall's career from the 1990s: her abstract paintings drawing on sublime and modernist traditions and the human connection to nature. Critics noted these works for their sense of light and surfaces mixing transparency and density, gestural drips, and thick lunges of paint, which they compared to the work of Hans Hofmann. This body of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Colleen Randall. Copyright held by the artist.

Colleen Randall

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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 Colleen Randall's career dating from the 1990s, when she produced paintings rooted in the abstract expressionist and sublime traditions and the relationship between nature and human consciousness. Her early work explored connections between memories of landscape and abstraction and was characterized by dark, luminous colors recalling the materials of pigment, large tonal masses, and textures enhanced by mixing sawdust and marble dust into oil paint. Critics suggested that these paintings gained emotional strength through a dialogue of opposites: warm versus cool; dark versus light; smooth versus rough; swirling gesture against subtly modulated fields; and complementary hues. 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 foundational body of work, which brought Randall initial recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Randall'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 Colleen Randall, 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.