File:Joan Moment Waterfall 1973.jpg

Painting by Joan Moment, Waterfall (acrylic on watercolor board, 23" x 18", 1973). The image illustrates a key earlier body of work in Joan Moment's career: her "Dotted Mosaic Paintings" (1973–75) and "Pattern Paintings" (1978–84), which depicted flat, deadpan, iconic forms composed in vibrating, bright dots of color and various patterns (checkerboard, gridded, concentric, dotted). This work belongs to the former series. These works often portrayed animals, fish, plants, people, tropical landscapes and mountains that suggested haunting, forgotten paradises, conveyed through archetypal symbols based on paleolithic objects, aboriginal and ancient art, and Byzantine mosaics. 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 earlier body of work in Joan Moment's career in the 1970s and early 1980s when she turned from Funk art toward archetypal symbols and forms found in paleolithic objects, aboriginal and ancient art, and Byzantine mosaics. This work included her "Dotted Mosaic Paintings," which depicted flat, deadpan, iconic forms composed in vibrating, bright dots of color on black rubberized grounds, and her "Pattern Paintings," which consisted of crudely rendered geometric shapes on gesso-treated cheesecloth, as well as dresses and chairs. The textured surfaces of these works—covered in checkerboard, gridded, concentric or dotted patterns—referenced contemporary concerns with camouflage, aboriginal art, superficiality and the masking power of clothing. 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 earlier stage and body of work, which brought Moment ongoing 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.