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 - Eric Bourdon

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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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May

25

William Vicats buying a luxury pepper pot

Published on 2020-05-25 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting  


William Vicats buying a luxury Nepalese cement pepper pot at a good price - Eric Bourdon

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William Vicats buying a luxury
Nepalese cement pepper pot at a good price
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Original acrylic painting on linen canvas
Artwork size : 28.74 x 23.62” / 73 x 60 cm

© Online art gallery of painter Eric Bourdon
Lille, France, 2020



     The context of the presentation of William Vicats’ luxury Nepalese cement pepper pot affects the perception of the buying process of any pepper pot. In this regard, it is the paradigm of the pepper pot as a part of visual arts and art marketing that creates a series of consequential problems !…

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Oct

19

Dumb Art – Painting and official Manifesto

Published on 2019-10-19 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Painting  


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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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Sep

9

The bird who loved a cow with feathers…

Published on 2019-09-09 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Painting  


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The bird who loved a cow with feathers…

Original acrylic painting on cotton canvas
Artwork size : 15.75 x 31.50” / 40 x 80 cm

© Online art gallery of painter Eric Bourdon, 2019



     A cow with feathers who, despite herself, causes the passionate love of a febrile bird. Except that… the two feathers of the cow are strangely similar to those of the fowl…!

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Aug

30

Portrait of Eric Braeden (fragment) by painter Eric Bourdon

Published on 2019-08-30 by Eric Bourdon | Comments Off on Portrait of Eric Braeden (fragment) by painter Eric Bourdon
Category(ies) : Painting, Portraits  


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A dark classical portrait of Eric Braeden
by painter Eric Bourdon (© 2019)

It is a fragment of a recent painting on canvas :
Old classical art in a contemporary gallery



     Hans-Jörg Gudegast, aka Eric Braeden, born in Germany in 1941, is a naturalized American actor. He became world famous thanks to the soap opera The Young and the Restless, in which he plays since 1980 the role of self-made business magnate Victor Newman.

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Aug

25

MR. SHY – A reserved little improv drawing…

Published on 2019-08-25 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Drawing, Videos  


“MR. SHY” – Video on Facebook
Drawing improv – Video © Eric Bourdon

 

Creative doodling (1’02”) : A reserved little improv drawing…

(video speed is 4x the real speed)



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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 - Eric Bourdon

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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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Jul

21

The Casting of Leonardo… da Vinci ! Illustration book

Published on 2019-07-21 by Eric Bourdon | Comment
Category(ies) : Analysis, Drawing, Painting, Portraits  


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© L’Atelier du Poisson Soluble / Musée du Louvre Éditions
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     “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 !…

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