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everyday tint campaign : xanthopsia 111

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Poetic-Philosophical Analysis of "Campaign of Daily Hue" (a subrealist reinterpretation of Van Gogh's "Houses in Auvers") 1. Abstraction as the Mystical Language of Everyday Life This piece from the Xanthopsia collection effects a sensory transmutation: the countryside is no longer a landscape, but a field of chromatic and emotional forces. By revisiting Van Gogh through the subrealist prism (where reality dissolves without denying itself), the work becomes an allegory of the inner gaze. The yellow hues—an obsession with Van Gogh, a symptom of xanthopsia—are no longer colors, but states of mind. The instinctive gesture with the wooden spatula evokes a physical struggle with the material, as if I were digging into the canvas to extract the light buried beneath the grayness of everyday life. 2. Technical Duality: The Physical and the Digital as a Creative Dialectic The blend of watercolor, acrylic, and digital paint creates a sensory palimpsest. The hand-cut tracing introduces a deliberate imperfection, reminding us that digital technology should not erase the human trace, but magnify it. The frame-by-frame animation lightly and minimalistically brings this reinterpreted work to life, as if the painting were breathing, living in part—a nod to Van Gogh's living swirls. This hybridization raises the question: Where does the work begin and end? In the pigment or in the pixel? The answer lies in their conflicting coexistence, a mirror of the nature/culture duality dear to the original artist. 3. Psychology of Color: Yellow as Utopia and Melancholy Xanthopsia (yellow vision) is not just a medical symptom: it is a metaphor for artistic perception. Van Gogh saw the world through this filter, transforming the ordinary into burning gold. Here, yellow becomes alchemy: it burns forms to extract their essence. Digital strokes reproducing the texture of the physical brush add a memory of the gesture, as if Van Gogh's hand still haunts the screen. 4. Mysticism of the Landscape: The Countryside as Spiritual Combat The countryside is not a setting, but a battlefield. Each stroke of the spatula is a pickaxe in the earth, a quest for meaning through matter. Abstract Expressionism revisited here is not a style, but an asceticism: one must strip away the figurative to achieve pure emotion. The title "everyday tint campaign" plays on semantic ambiguity: the "countryside" is both geographical and military—a silent war to capture ephemeral beauty. 5. Temporalities in Tension: Van Gogh in the Digital Age Revisiting Houses in Auvers today is to question the permanence of the soul in art. The mixed media creates a deliberate anachronism: the crude gesture of the spatula coexists with the precision of digital tracing. This reflects Van Gogh's tension between vital urgency (painting before the world fades) and eternity (the work as survival). The animation gives the impression that the painting remembers itself, as if the inhabitants of the houses of Auvers continued to vibrate in a dreamlike manner across the centuries. Conclusion: Art as Active Transcendence This reinterpretation does not celebrate Van Gogh: it converses with him. Subrealism is not a rupture, but a dreamlike extension of his Expressionism. By blending the tactile and the virtual, the work poses a fundamental question: How can we poetically inhabit a world where the real and the digital intertwine? The answer lies in the process itself: painting, photographing, digitizing, animating… constantly starting over, just as Van Gogh began his paintings again, desperately searching for the perfect color—the one that perhaps exists only in the eye of the beholder. The Xanthopsia collection doesn't show light: it shows the act of seeing. And in this gesture, it embraces Van Gogh's eternal struggle: to paint not the world, but the way it burns our eyes. Tribute to Van Gogh painting: « Houses at Auvers » see original at : Museum of Fine Arts Boston 3840 x 2160 px / 4k MP4 / 121 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 Edition