Oct

14

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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Jul

8

Union Hall, Ireland : “A Whale of a Time” art exhibition

Published on 2023-07-08 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Drawing, Exhibitions, Painting, Sculpture  


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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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Jun

18

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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May

6

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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Mar

11

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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