Apr
17
Pan-chromatic plastic emulsion…
Published on 2021-04-17 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting
Pan-chromatic plastic emulsion
with jubilant pigmentary hydroflures from Agadir Nymphaea
(Full title)
Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 31.89 x 25.59” / 81 x 65 cm
© Online art gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2020
Such a title immediately sends us back faster than one would think to the history of Marxism and the thorny debate on the inability to fully account, in the aesthetics of pigment emulsion, of the specificity of dynamic fluctuations of meaning. The properties of pan- (even pro-) chromatic plastic emulsion force us today to revise our interpretation of the pigment classification recognized until then by specialists and chroniclers of jubilant sciences.
Jun
18
Lazar Berman shopping at the art market in Oslo
Published on 2020-06-18 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting
Lazar Berman shopping at the art market in Oslo
while making satisfied little noises
(Full title)
Original acrylic painting on extra strong drawing paper
with grain Carte d’Art 340g by Sennelier (D340)
Artwork size : 7.87 x 7.87” / 20 x 20 cm
© Online art gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2020
Drawings and paintings, musics and songs are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and sense of finitude. As Merleau-Ponty wrote in the Visible and the Invisible, “Essence and existence, the imaginary and the real, the visible and the invisible, painting blurs all our categories in unfolding its oneiric universe of carnal essences, of efficient resemblances, and of silent significations”. Soviet Russian classical pianist Lazar Naumovich Berman was a thrilling interpreter of Liszt and Rachmaninoff and a late representative of the grand school of Russian Romantic pianism, but has been virtually invisible on this issue.
Oct
19
Dumb Art – Painting and official Manifesto
Published on 2019-10-19 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting
Dumb Art
Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 25.59 x 21.26” / 65 x 54 cm
© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon, Lille, France, 2019
A historical piece : the first artwork of official Dumb Art. Read the Dumb Art Manifesto !
Aug
7
Old classical art in a contemporary gallery
Published on 2019-08-07 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting
Old classical art in a contemporary gallery
Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 23.62 x 23.62” / 60 x 60 cm
© Gallery of painter Eric Bourdon, 2019
A dark traditional portrait of Eric Braeden (Victor Newman in The Young and the Restless), as an antique not very at ease in an explosive contemporary art gallery ! Classical art causes skepticism, fear and misunderstanding among the general public. Getting to the end of the old representative art ?…
Jul
21
The Casting of Leonardo… da Vinci ! Illustration book
Published on 2019-07-21 by Eric Bourdon | Comment (2)
Category(ies) : Analysis, Drawing, Painting, Portraits
© L’Atelier du Poisson Soluble / Musée du Louvre Éditions
Zoom on the cover
“The Casting of Leonardo”, the latest illustration book by Belgian sketch artist Nathalie Vessié-Hodges, will be released very soon, on August 21st ! As you will have understood, it is obviously about the Florentine painter and inventor, there aren’t a thousand Leonardo… On the other hand, if you thought the model who inspired his masterpiece “La Gioconda” had no competition, you’re going to discover a beautiful, little-known episode in art history !…
Mar
31
Red cop on Yellow vest – Acrylic painting
Published on 2019-03-31 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting
Red cop on Yellow vest
Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 25.59 x 21.26” / 65 x 54 cm
© Eric Bourdon, 2019
The Yellow vests, or Yellow jackets (French: Gilets jaunes), is a social movement that began in France in November 2018, motivated by rising fuel prices, high cost of living, and claims that a disproportionate burden of the government’s tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes.
Jan
20
BURNOUT : post-post-postmodern expressionism…
Published on 2019-01-20 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting
BURNOUT
Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 31.50 x 31.5″ / 80 x 80 cm
© Eric Bourdon, 2019
The Burnout, post-post-postmodern expressionist version
of the Scream by Edvard Munch, “father of expressionism”…
Oct
16
Brett Kavanaugh, a judge without precedent…
Published on 2018-10-16 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Drawing, Drawings on paper
Brett Kavanaugh, a judge without precedent…
Pen, marker on paper, digital retouching
Eric Bourdon © 2018
An illustration with Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s pick for US Supreme Court, a highly conservative judge (described by The New York Times as a “conservative stalwart”) obsessed with judicial precedents, but having a very fuzzy memory of his own past…















