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Painting by Eddie Martinez, The Grass is Never Greener (mixed media on canvas, 72" x 118", 2009). The image illustrates earlier body of work in Eddie Martinez's career in the 2000s: his raw, Neo-Expressionistic paintings which drew on personal experience and artists such as Picasso, Peter Saul, Gorky, de Kooning and Hockney. This work often featured densely packed ideas, applications of paint, shapes and cartoony objects that read like oblique rebuses. Many of his paintings of this period also used speech bubbles, or in this case, tabletops, which serve as framing devices for clustered forms or paintings within paintings. This series of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Eddie Martinez. Copyright held by the artist.

Eddie Martinez (artist)

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating an earlier period in the career of Eddie Martinez in the 2000s, when he created diaristic paintings that critics described as updated, liberated Neo-Expressionism which drew on past artists such as Picasso, Peter Saul, Arshile Gorky, de Kooning and David Hockney. This work often featured densely packed ideas, gesture and texture, pileups of shapes and cartoony objects, thick brushstrokes and bursts of paint, all of which sometimes functioned like rebuses or hieroglyphs to create oblique messages. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize a key developmental phase in his art, which attracted early recognition from art journals, daily press publications, and museums. Martinez's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Eddie Martinez, 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.