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Painting by Robert Bordo, c.u.c.d. #14 (oil on canvas, 75" x 56", 2019). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Robert Bordo's career in the latter 2010s, when he produced several offshoot series that evolved from his windshield paintings. These series included self-portraits in rear-view mirrors, the "Skinny Jeans" paintings (2016), and in this case, the "crackup" paintings (2019– ). The "crackup" drew upon prior series by employing monochrome grounds and lines incised into wet, oil surfaces and themes reflecting a contemporary, contentious political climate. They appear like broken window panes with dark holes depicted on moody green and blue surfaces, surrounded by spidery cracks that seemingly threaten to shatter further. This body of work was publicly shown in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

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 later body of work in Robert Bordo's career in the latter 2010s: the multiple offshoot series developed out of his windshield paintings, which included a series of self-portraits in rear-view mirrors, the "Skinny Jeans" paintings (2016), and the "crackup" paintings (2019– ). The latter two series were created by scraping outlined forms out of dark monochrome surfaces with a palette knife, revealing lines of bright underpainting. The "Skinny Jeans" paintings depict the back pockets on jeans, which he found resembled the eyeglasses in his self-portraits; the "crackup" paintings suggest broken window panes and extend his interest in conflating the painbitng surface with subject imagery. 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 these key later bodies of work, which brought Bordo ongoing 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.