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Normandy landscape with a small sunny stream.

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Normandy landscape with a small sunny stream.

Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 31.89 x 25.59” / 81 x 65 cm

Refused at the Salon d’Automne (Paris) 2021  

© Online art gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2021

     The painting “Normandy landscape with a small sunny stream” shows, in a sensible manner, different ways of representing, staging the body, nature and matter. But from a more conceptual perspective, the painting is equally guided by the question of Jacques Derrida’s deconstructionist aesthetic scheme and acts as a postmodern reverse of the setting (raising a radical suspicion about structured language and functionalist and descriptive approaches to traditional hermeneutics).

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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.

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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.

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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 !

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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 ?…

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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.

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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”…