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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)

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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.

Dream 1 Yasmina Alaoui Marco Guerra geometric body painting

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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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