File:Joan Moment Galaxy VII 2020.jpg

Painting by Joan Moment, Galaxy VII (acrylic on canvas, 6' x 8', 2020). The image illustrates a key late body of work in Joan Moment's career: her "Universe" series (2002– ) of "flow paintings," created by pouring, dragging and puddling thin paint to produce fresco-like grounds. These works suggest a wide range of phenomena: star constellations, planets or galaxies; cosmic gases; tidal eddies and flood plains; lava flows or deserts seen from above. Critics have suggested that they explore ultimate realities, transcending the human body. These paintings were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Joan Moment. Copyright held by the artist.

Joan Moment

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key late body of work in Joan Moment's extending from the late 1980s into the 2020s, when she increasingly focused on forms that evoke natural and cosmic phenomena, delineating themes of mortality, temporality and memory. This work included her "Nature/Cosmology" series (1987–92) and "Universe" series (2002– ) of "flow paintings," among others. The latter works involve pouring, dragging and puddling thin paint to produce fresco-like grounds suggestive of cosmic gases, tidal eddies, flood plains, lava flows and deserts seen from above. They may suggest cells, bubbles and chemical diagrams, forms like islands formsor those seen in Native American dreamcatchers, and evocations of the skies, with orbs and spattered circles that call to mind star constellations, planets or galaxies. 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 later stage and body of work, which brought Moment continuing recognition through exhibitions in major venues and coverage by major critics and publications. Moment'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 Joan Moment, 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.