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Sep
7
Playing pareidolia with Freud…
Published on 2013-09-07 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Applied art, Painting, Pareidolia
This is the shape of a vulture that Sigmund Freud, playing “pareidolia” without knowing it, found in Leonardo da Vinci’s oil painting “The Virgin and Child with St. Anne” (1503-1519).
This vulture, that Sigmund Freud guessed was hidden in the folds of the garment of the Virgin, was the center of his speculations about Leonardo da Vinci’s alleged homosexuality and views on women in his book Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood (1910).
If the vulture revealed anything, it was only about Freud’s personal obsessions. I’ve just found some other interesting shapes, highlighted in my latest work “Sigmund Freud and a memory of his elephants”. You will see just a few of them, solutions are innumerable…!
Aug
5
That’s it ! End of the work in progress…
Published on 2013-08-05 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting, Work in progress
…or almost it. What else ? Varnishing, title, photos, gripping structure, pictures on the website, exhibiting… among many other things… Soon !
It is not the end; it is not even the beginning of the end; but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. (W. Churchill)
Photo © Eric Bourdon
Aug
4
Story… about musicians, fans, spectators…
Published on 2013-08-04 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Music, Painting, Work in progress
A triangle player, 2 guitarists, a drummer, an accordionist, a singer… All kinds of musicians everywhere with their fans, or amazed spectators… Then you can imagine what kind of story it could be… perhaps a musical American Idol-like contest ?
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Aug
1
Festival of Colors, World Music Day… Or both ?
Published on 2013-08-01 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Music, Painting, Work in progress
Big festival, whatever kind it is, the World Music Day or the Hindu Festival of Colors (‘Holi’)…
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Jul
30
Day 15… New creative episode !
Published on 2013-07-30 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting, Work in progress
A big tree to support the big band !…
This new creative episode is the 15th day
of painting this great canvas !…
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May
12
Geometric body painting by Yasmina Alaoui
Published on 2013-05-12 by Eric Bourdon | Comments Off on Geometric body painting by Yasmina Alaoui
Category(ies) : Drawing, Painting, Photo
The great interest of bodypainting seems to be the possibility it offers to directly ‘paint’ the reality (and what more perfect part of the real world than the human body ?) without, however, having to make any kind of representational work.
You don’t copy anything, you don’t try to imitate a model, or to reproduce on paper what you see. You don’t bother with representation anymore, you just put the paint on the bodies themselves, and the power of painting simply ‘shines’… In such case, the reality, the body, is used to its best potential in the service of the painting itself, not the other way around.
Apr
14
You little mouse deserve nothing !…
Published on 2013-04-14 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Applied art, Drawing, Painting
…even this little piece of cheese !
This is an improvised painting, its drawing was inspired by a doodle on the cover of You Deserve Nothing, a 2011 novel by the American writer Alexander Maksik. It could be an allegory about the rich accumulating unnecessary goods while refusing the poor (the grey mouse) to feed themselves. The bird could be a state agent. A scenario among others…
UPDATE : Take a look at the step-by-step creation of : You dirty rat deserve nothing (the new title!), along with an other improvised drawing, and an other story, created from the same doodle…
Mar
28
Naoto Hattori : Art is all about taking risks…
Published on 2012-03-28 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting
BAD DAY
(Limited Edition Print)
Naoto Hattori was born in Japan, studied graphic design in Tokyo before moving to New York to study in the School of Visual Arts. Another computer artist ?… Not really : whatever one might think of a contemporary work of such graphic refinement, Naoto Hattori never paints with computers :
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