Feb
19
New trendy haircut… – WIP-11
Published on 2018-02-19 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting, Work in progress
Day 11 and the live improvised painting continues to evolve, with a new haircut (or feather-cut) very trendy at the moment among Saturnian owls.
Feb
16
Art Capital 2018 at the Grand Palais in Paris
Published on 2018-02-16 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Exhibitions
Another 3 days to enjoy the ART CAPITAL exhibition in Paris !
ART CAPITAL brings the four historic Parisian salons together under the glass roof of the Grand Palais :
Salon Comparaisons
Salon des Artistes français (Salon of French Artists)
Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’eau
(Drawing and Watercolour Salon)
Salon des Artistes Indépendants (Salon of Independent Artists)
Feb
15
Little red being – WIP-10
Published on 2018-02-15 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting, Work in progress
Tenth day of the creation, step by step, of an acrylic painting. And the hat has turned into a little red being…
Feb
13
The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet
Published on 2018-02-13 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting, Portraits
(Zoom on the self-portrait by Courbet)
The Desperate Man
Oil painting on canvas by Gustave Courbet
Artwork size : 45 x 54 cm, 1843-1845
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The Desperate Man is a painting by the French painter Gustave Courbet. The artwork is a self-portrait of the artist. It is thought that he made this painting between 1843 and 1845, at the beginning of his installation in Paris. It shows him “desperate” but especially in full youth.
Courbet was very attached to this canvas since he took it with him into exile in Switzerland in 1873. A few years later, Dr. Paul Collin at the bedside of Courbet during his last days, describes the painter’s studio and, more particularly, “a painting representing Courbet with a desperate expression and that he had entitled Despair for this reason”.
The painting belongs to a private investment collection, but was exhibited at the Musée d’Orsay in 2007.
Feb
12
Magic mushroom – WIP-9
Published on 2018-02-12 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting, Pareidolia, Work in progress
Ninth day of the step-by-step creation of a new painting. And our egg turns suddenly into a magic mushroom…
Feb
9
Website – Visitors by country of origin
Published on 2018-02-09 by Eric Bourdon | Comments Off on Website – Visitors by country of origin
Category(ies) : Miscellaneous
Website visitors by country of origin
eric bourdon .com (January 2018)
The top 17 countries that visit the website eric bourdon .com, based on the month of January 2018. In the Top 5, no surprise with… France (49%) followed by United States ( 16%), big surprise with South Korea (5%), before Germany (3%) and United Kingdom (3%).
감사합니다 !
Feb
8
Bird in sight…? – WIP-8
Published on 2018-02-08 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting, Work in progress
And eight ! The step-by-step creation of a new acrylic painting continues. A bird in sight !
Feb
7
The peaceful landscapes of Alfred Sisley
Published on 2018-02-07 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting
The bridge at Moret (Le pont de Moret)
Oil painting on canvas by Alfred Sisley, 1893
73 x 92 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Born in Paris in 1839, Alfred Sisley is a British artist painter and engraver, attached to the Impressionist movement and living and working mainly in France. He will be admitted to the Salon of French Artists in 1866, 1868 and 1870.
The pictorial language of Alfred Sisley has always been strongly in keeping with Impressionism, but he has also always shown his attachment to his first inspirers, Jean-Baptiste Corot and Charles-François Daubigny. Sisley is exclusively a landscape painter, one who, with Claude Monet, best sought and succeeded in expressing the most subtle nuances of nature in the Impressionist landscapes. His paintings show his keen interest in the colorful impressions of trees and buildings, and the changing play of light and clouds above the landscape.