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Painting by Judith Belzer, All That is Solid #24 (oil on canvas, 96" x 84", 2021). The image illustrates a later body of work by Judith Belzer: her invented landscapes of the 2020s, which shifted from her earlier linear qualities toward spare, loosely painted forms. This work represents her "All That Is Solid" series (2020–22). Critics suggested the avalanche-like scenes alluded to 19th-century romantic landscape painting that sought to represent the sublime, while offering balanced as comic and catastrophic environmental and political metaphors of the contemporary world. These paintings were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Judith Belzer. Copyright held by the artist.

Judith Belzer

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Yes. The image will not affect the commercial 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.

The image has contextual significance serving an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later body of work in Judith Belzer's career, in the 2020s, when her semi-abstract oils of invented landscapes went in a direction that presented a visual counterpart to her earlier linear pieces. These spare, loosely painted works depicted large and small rocks hanging in space against voids of misty, unnatural pastel washes, suggesting stop-action avalanches and ambiguous metaphors for the era's shifting environmental and political ground. Because the article is about an artist and her art, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key body of work, which brought Belzer wider recognition through exhibitions in major venues, coverage by major critics and publications, and museum acquisitions. Belzer'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 Judith Belzer, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image use is minimal in that it conveys important information that a full artwork image at a limited fair-use size cannot due to the uniquely hyper-detailed nature of the work. By providing a close-up of the artist's style and imagery, it is significantly more informative for a viewer. It is also a further protection (along with the low resolution) against affecting commercial value.