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Pop in Time: Xanthopsia 129

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1. Central Concept: Dialectics of Time and Pop Culture • Reinterpretation as a Philosophical Act: Revisiting Van Gogh's "Butterflies and Poppies" questions the longevity of classical works in the digital age. My title "Pop in Time" symbolizes the absorption of an artistic heritage by popular culture, transforming Van Gogh's contemplative intimacy into an accessible, ephemeral, and reproducible icon. • Allegory of "Blossoming": Like Van Gogh's poppies, artistic popularity is vibrant but fleeting. Your work explores this paradox: a cultural "blossoming" (the summer of art) fueled by digital reappropriation, while questioning its sustainability in the face of visual overconsumption. 2. Mixed Media: Hybridization as a Manifesto • Physical vs. Digital: ◦ Acrylic paint on canvas: Anchored in materiality, echoing Van Gogh's expressionist gestures. ◦ Hand-cut tracing: Mediation between tangible and virtual, highlighting human intervention in technical reproducibility. ◦ Stop-motion animation: Jerky rhythm evoking digital fragmentation, transforming contemplation into a kinetic experience. ◦ • Unconventional Subrealism: My abstraction thwarts expectations. Van Gogh's forms, dissociated and then reassembled, create a tension between recognition and strangeness—a reflection of digital culture where authenticity coexists with remixing… a form of Subpop Art. 3. Xanthopsia: Altered perception as utopia. • Light/dark duality: The dominant yellow (a nod to Van Gogh's palette and his pathological xanthopsia) becomes a metaphor. It embodies the quest for positivity in the digital age, often perceived as dehumanizing. • Resonance with Van Gogh: His struggle between melancholy and chromatic lyricism resonates with my approach: showing how art transforms "altered visions" (physical or cultural) into creative forces. 4. Philosophy of Reappropriation: Pop Culture vs. Art History • Detournement as Critique: By projecting Van Gogh into pop aesthetics, I highlight the mechanism of desacralization/sacralization specific to mass culture: the work becomes digital, while acquiring a new ubiquity. • Digital Subculture: My hybrid technique (photographed canvas, digital painting) embodies a form of contemporary identity "hybridization." The minimalist animation evokes compulsive scrolling in a slow and organic contrast that questions our relationship to time and attention. 5. Abstract Expressionism in Motion: The Reinvented Gesture • Contemplative Dynamism: Unlike the stillness of the original canvas, my animation infuses a symbolic "movement": ◦ The butterflies escape the formalism of figuralism, an allegory of the viral dissemination of images. ◦ The poppies fragment and become colorful abstractions, evoking the dematerialization of art. • Active Meditation: The viewer is placed in a tension between immersion (inherited from Abstract Expressionism) and critical distance (induced by digital processing). Conclusion: Transcendence through Hybridization My "Pop in Time" goes beyond homage: it is a manifesto on the resilience of art. By blending manual gestures (clipping, acrylic) with digital tools, I show that technological reinvention does not erase the aura, but transforms it. Xanthopsia thus becomes an operative utopia: in the visual excess of digital technology, your work invites us to discern light—that of Van Gogh, filtered through the prism of pop, but still capable of awakening new contemplation. This piece thus embodies the coexistence of temporalities: the past as an eternal flowering in the present, provided we are willing to see it. → Synthetic vision: "Pop in Time" is an archaeology of the future, where subrealism becomes subpop art, the language of an artistic memory in perpetual mutation, and where the artist's hand converses with the algorithm to re-enchant our relationship with the sacred. Tribute to Van Gogh : « Butterflies and Poppies» 2160 x 3840 px / 4k MP4 / 111 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition see original at :Van Gogh Museum