Painting career

Bourdon's works have in common vivid colors and unpremeditated pencil strokes, expressive of raw enthusiasm in the "art brut" or "Outsider Art

Outsider Art

The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut , a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates.While...

" manner. Paul Masquelier, critic for the controversial review "Eléments" has pointed out the narcissistic or regressive aspects of his paintings, while noting their social commentary and the feeling of joie de vivre they convey.

Writing career

Bourdon wrote a book of philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 in 2000 about artistic creation in practice. He wrote a long article for the magazine Concepts 1, comparing the first ethnological discoveries of L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard

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, later the founder of the Church of Scientology

Church of Scientology

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, to Zarathustra by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...

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Six years later he published a dark psychological thriller, Les Voleurs d'Enfant (The Child Thieves), depicting a cult against the cults. Although set in Boston

Boston

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, it is a dig at the French associations claiming religious neutrality and opposition to cults while behaving the same way as the cults they denounce.

Books

• Hors-sujets, ou l'art du néant et rebonds philosophiques ("Beside the Point, or the Art of Nothingness and Philosophical Rebounds"), Sils Maria asbl, February 2000.
• Introduction to Nietzsche's "Also Spratch Zarathustra", in Concepts [1], Sils Maria asbl, August 2000, pp 91-108.
• Les Voleurs d'Enfant (The Child Thiefs), La Méduse, Lille, August 2006.