File:Robert Bordo Back Seat 2003.jpg

Painting by Robert Bordo, Back Seat (oil on linen, 21" x 35", 2003). The image illustrates a key mid-career body of work in Robert Bordo's career in the 2000s, when he produced his "Postcard" paintings and landscape abstractions, explored the presentation of sublime space and the human archiving and recall of image memories. These works are characterized by quiet, carefully limited palettes, no-frills and non-descriptive rendering, and wide formats. They often feature—as in this work—multiple images derived from picture postcards that are overlapped in loose grids or clustered in constellations over unmodulated, matte grounds. Critics have described them as "mindscapes"—generalized impressions of landscape like links in the associative chain of private thought and emotions—and compared them to work by Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin and Mark Rothko. This body of work was publicly shown in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired for museum collections.

Artist Robert Bordo. Copyright held by the artist.

Robert Bordo

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career body of work in Robert Bordo's career in the 2000s: his "Postcard" paintings and landscape abstractions, which explored the presentation of sublime space and the human archiving and recall of image memories, often drawing upon picture postcards that his mother had collected. These works were rendered in quiet, carefully limited palettes with a no-frills manner without descriptive detail, often in wide formats in which multiple images were overlapped in loose grids or clustered in constellations over unmodulated, matte grounds. 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 understand this key stage and body of work, which brought Bordo further recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Bordo'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 Robert Bordo, and the work no longer is viewable, 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.