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Painting by Barbara Takenaga, Manifold 5 (acrylic on linen, 70" x 225", 2018). The image illustrates a late-career period of work by Barbara Takenaga in the late 2010s, when she opened up her work by exposing areas of modulated underpainting and introducing shifting figure-ground relationships, bolder compositions and more open spaces. These works draw on classical Japanese art, scientific imagery and mid-century abstraction and evoke events such as explosions, space travel, drifting land masses, and microbiology under pressure and change. This representative five-paneled painting features abstracted silhouette imagery (a river, votive candles, geyser forms) taken from Japanese screens and other Eastern sources; they function as patterns or dark grounds flipping between positive shapes and negative space. This work and the series of works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Barbara Takenaga. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a late period in Barbara Takenaga's career: her late-2010s paintings, in which she opened up the work by exposing areas of her modulated underpaintings (featuring drips, puddles, and spatters) and introduced shifting figure-ground relationships, bolder compositions and more open spaces. These works often employ austere, contemplative palettes and large, dark shapes like holes in the images drawn from Japanese screens and other Eastern sources; they function as patterns or dark grounds flipping between positive shapes and negative space. In them, her previous reference points (landscape fields, tarmacs and horizon lines) shift to more confrontational, turbulent references to explosions, space travel, drifting land masses, and microbiology, evoking a world of constant pressure and relentless change. 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 visualize a key late phase in her art, which brought further recognition from art journals, daily press publications, and museums. Takenaga'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 Barbara Takenaga, 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.