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Painting installation by Sandeep Mukherjee, Mutual Entanglements (acrylic on duralene, 7' x 50', 2015). The image illustrates a middle period and body of Sandeep Mukherjee's work in the mid-2000s: his process-oriented abstractions that suggest natural and geological phenomena, cosmological events and topographic maps. In this example, an enveloping, 7' x 50', two-wall mural, the sprayed and dragged brown, green, purple and indigo colors and organic abstraction suggested a lush tropical jungle. The mural was unusual in that its construction and orientation was indeterminate and fluid, with panels that could be installed in any direction or order and yet retain cohesion, despite the lack of a repeating pattern. 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 Sandeep Mukherjee. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a middle period and body of work in Sandeep Mukherjee's career in the 2010s, when he continued to work abstractly, often created large-scale, multi-panel mural-like works that took on an architectural aspect by traversing walls, turning corners and interacting with the light of their spaces. These process-oriented abstractions were created through multiple applications reworked in spontaneous, rhythmic gestures with a range of tools including brushes, concrete brooms, carved rolls, sponges and Q-tips, among others. Critics likened them to botanic forms, such as tropical jungles or to microscopic and cosmological forms. 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 development in his art, which brought ongoing recognition from art journals, daily press publications, and eventually museums. Mukherjee'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 Sandeep Mukherjee, 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.