May

6

How to buy art like a pro

Published on 2026-05-06 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting  


     How to buy art like a pro : expert tips on purchasing paintings and investing in art

     Discover expert advice on how to buy paintings, from selecting the right artwork to ensuring authenticity and making a smart investment. Learn where to buy art, how to evaluate prices, and tips for displaying your collection.


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Mar

11

Discrimination against painters at SNCF ?

Published on 2026-03-11 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Music, Painting  


     The scientific community is in an uproar !… The new SNCF (French National Railway Company) baggage policy allows one large piece of “special luggage” (90 x 130 x 50 cm) per passenger on TGV INOUI trains. A musical instrument can be transported in this item of luggage, but paintings are prohibited.

     Is a suitcase of the same dimensions really more bulky when it contains a painter’s latest work rather than a synthesizer ?… Are the external dimensions greater depending on the contents of the baggage or the traveler’s sensibility ?… Will this hidden content, if it’s pictorial rather than musical, lengthen the train journey ?… Do the theories of quantum physics and general relativity need to be completed ?…

     Or has the SNCF suddenly veered down the path of discrimination ?


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Nov

18

The Incredible Lightness of Being

Published on 2025-11-18 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting  


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The Incredible Lightness of Being

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

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2025



     With his acrylic painting on canvas entitled “The Incredible Lightness of Being,” the painter Eric Bourdon addresses the problem of being by focusing on its pictorial manifestation, which is as light as it is incredible.

     If the question of being doesn’t seem to be at the heart of pictorial art, it’s not due to any disinterest, but rather, on the contrary, for a very specific reason that can be summarized as follows : the incredibly light problem of manifestation is nevertheless deeper, more fundamental, more primal than the problem of being…

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Jun

12

Hand-painted skateboard ‘Vercingetorix’

Published on 2025-06-12 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Applied art, Painting  


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Vercingetorix

Original acrylic painting
Hand-painted ‘Double Deck’ (1978-1979) skateboard

Artwork size : 6.69 x 27.76″ / 17 x 70.5 cm

© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2025



     With the acrylic paint “Vercingetorix”, the painter Eric Bourdon signs his very first painting on a skateboard !

     This hand-painted skateboard clearly gives visibility and presence to the absent par excellence, Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix, the king of the Arverni, but the absent from the painting, appears on the skateboard surface all the more gloriously because he has no human features, all the more manifest because he remains missing.

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Jun

18

George Vicat Cole, landscape painter

Published on 2023-06-18 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Biographies of painters, 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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Oct

19

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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