Saint George crushing the dragon

Published on 2024-01-15 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting, Sculpture  


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Saint George crushing the dragon

Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 25.59 x 21.26” / 65 x 54 cm

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2023



     With the acrylic painting on canvas titled “Saint George crushing the dragon,” Eric Bourdon follows the straight line of a long pictorial, artistic and literary tradition !

     In the legend, the dragon extorted tribute from villagers. When they ran out of livestock for the dragon, they started giving up human tributes, chosen by lottery. When one day, the lot fell on the king’s daughter ! The king offered all his gold and silver to have his daughter spared, but the people refused. The princess was sent out to the lake, dressed as a bride, to be fed to the dragon. The saint thereupon rescued the princess and killed the dragon.

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Zigoto

Published on 2023-10-14 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting  


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Zigoto

Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 9.45 x 6.30” / 24 x 16 cm

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2023



     “Zigoto”, acrylic on linen canvas : the mature work of Eric Bourdon ?…

     Zigoto : fanciful character, with extravagant behavior. Synonyms : zigomar, zig(ue)… A guy (without value judgement). A strong, energetic man. Synonym : zigotteau. Pejoratively, an unsavory individual, lacking seriousness. Synonyms : a joke, a jerk, a weirdo. Act like a zigoto : behave in an extravagant manner. Synonyms : act smart, stand out, show off, get noticed, draw attention.

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union hall ireland art exhibition a whale of a time

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     Art exhibition “A Whale of a Time” at Cnoc Buí gallery, Union Hall, Co Cork in Ireland, is a story of whales, wolves and other characters straight out of the imagination of Nathalie Vessié. The universe of the Belgian artist is told through her paintings, her papier-mâché sculptures, her illustrations and her books.

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George Vicat Cole, landscape painter

Published on 2023-06-18 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting  


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Springtime

Exhibited in 1865
Oil on canvas, 66.1 x 101.7 cm
Manchester Art Gallery



     George Vicat Cole was an English painter. Vicat Cole was born at Portsmouth on 17 April 1833, eldest of five children of Eliza Vicat (of an old French Huguenot family, she will die in 1883) and the landscape painter George Cole (1810–1883). Initially exhibiting as ‘George Cole, junior’, from the mid-1850s he adopted his mother’s French Huguenot maiden name to distinguish his name from that of his father.

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Declaration of love under the rising suns

Published on 2023-05-06 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting  


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Declaration of love under the rising suns flying at such a speed
that in places little crisp bits of Namur humor
from the Napoleonic era fall out from them.

(Full title)

Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 24.02 x 19.69” / 61 x 50 cm

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2022



     The painting titled “Declaration of love under the rising suns flying at such a speed that in places little crisp bits of Namur humor from the Napoleonic era fall out from them” by Eric Bourdon does not aim at the visible, but it makes us feel our life where it experiences itself, in the inner trial of its passion, its suffering, its love, its humor and its joy, shapes and colors being only fragments of life. The artistic work is phenomenologically identical to what constitutes the revealing power of our life since it draws its truth from the invisibility and the unsurpassable immanence of life.

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The frock coat of the pope of Hautot-sur-Mer

Published on 2023-03-11 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting  


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The frock coat of the pope of Hautot-sur-Mer

Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 25.59 x 18.11” / 65 x 46 cm

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2022



     The aesthetic contemplation of the acrylic painting by French painter Eric Bourdon titled “The frock coat of the pope of Hautot-sur-Mer” does not direct us towards the canvas or towards the figures which appear on it, but towards an entirely different landscape and entirely different realities which are the “represented realities”, “portrayed” or even “depicted” and which constitute, precisely, no longer the painting as an object of the world but the work of art in its aesthetic reality.

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Sky of subtle oil over a golf course in Lectoure

Published on 2022-12-15 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting  


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Sky of subtle oil over a golf course in Lectoure.

Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 25.59 x 21.26” / 65 x 54 cm

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2022



     Through the acrylic painting on canvas by Eric Bourdon titled “Sky of subtle oil over a golf course in Lectoure” we see dawning the equivalent, in the painter, of the existential concern for being – a marked, obstinate interest in the sky as ultimate transcendence, a passion for air, wind and space as sources of inspiration, subtle oils and matrices of any pictorial operation.

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Siege of Bayonne by the Marquess of Wellington

Published on 2022-10-19 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting  


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Siege of Bayonne by the army of the Marquess of Wellington.
(Full title)

Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 28.74 x 23.62” / 73 x 60 cm

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2022



     The acrylic painting on canvas by Eric Bourdon titled “Siege of Bayonne by the army of the Marquess of Wellington” reexamines the strange and peremptory statement of Maurice Merleau-Ponty : “The painter lives in fascination”. If the painter lives in fascination, it is because his gaze is that of who sees as much as of who is seen. What is at stake here is the very question of our presence in the world, a presence threatened and besieged by Marquesses of Wellington of all kinds. An essential question that has its place in the hollow of this fascination which is the irreducible mode of existence of the painter in front of his canvas. The siege of Bayonne calls not so much for a neo-romantic exaltation of pictorial creativity as for an ontology of the natural world in which the layer of aesthesiological meaning that is elaborated thanks to our carnal complicity with the things would be fully explained.

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