Tezos

Art and Fact: Xanthopsia 131

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Description

"Art and Fact": A Subrealist and Hybrid Reinterpretation of Van Gogh 1. Artistic Conceptualization: Subrealism and Digital Hybridity My reinterpretation of "Head of a Peasant Woman with a Brownish Bonnet" under the title "Art and Fact" is part of a contemporary approach where subrealist abstraction deconstructs classical figuration to extract a meditative essence. By blending acrylic paint (a physical gesture) and digital animation (hand-cut layers, digital painting frame by frame), I create a material duality that questions: - Authenticity: What is the "real" work? The original canvas, its digital capture, or its animation? - The ritualization of the process: The manual/digital superposition becomes a performative, almost alchemical act, in which the artist transmutes reality. - Subrealism: Neither entirely abstract nor realistic, my work suggests an altered perception (Xanthopsia), where yellow—Van Gogh's symbol of light and madness—becomes a utopian filter over a fragmented reality. 2. Philosophy of Art: Diversion and Timelessness My piece poses key philosophical questions: - The value of art: By reviving a classic, I question the status of the "original" work versus its reinterpretation. Digital technology, often perceived as ephemeral, here acquires a sacred quality through the manual work of tracing. - The "flat" society: My approach is part of a sub-flat layer of art history, where hierarchies (ancient/modern, manual/digital) are erased in favor of a symbolic stratification. - Duality and Coexistence: Just as Van Gogh captured the tensions between chaos and harmony, my minimalist animation (using keyframes) suggests suspended movement, a meditation on time—that of creation, contemplation, and the digital afterlife of the work. 3. Digital Subculture and Re-enchantment My method embodies a punk hybridity: - Low-tech/High-tech Diversion: The digitized and hand-reworked photography recalls DIY zines, while the animation evokes glitchy GIFs, creating a digital folklore. - Contemporary Ritual: The process itself (photographing, clipping, animating) becomes a ceremony where the artist "invokes" Van Gogh through the screen, merging spiritualism and pixels. - Xanthopsia as a Manifesto: This yellow vision, both pathology (for Van Gogh) and utopia, symbolizes your manifesto: seeing differently to create differently. 4. Conclusion: A Disruptive Homage "Art and Fact" is not a simple reinterpretation, but a digital palimpsest that: - Reactivates Van Gogh's gesture (my instinctive acrylic painting echoing his impulsive touch). - Projects him into the post-internet era (animation as a universal language, but altered by subrealism). - Questions art as a total social fact (a work that is simultaneously an object, a performance, and a digitalized data). In short, you propose a reverse archaeology: instead of seeking the past in the present, I inject the present into the past, creating a phantom work—both memory and prophecy. (The quest will continue from Xanthopsia to other works to explore a digital mythology of perception…) Tribute to Van Gogh : « Head of a Peasant Woman with Brownish Cap » 2160 x 3840 px / 4k MP4 / 116 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition see original at :Kröller-Müller Museum