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Protect Life: Xanthopsia 135

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"Protect Life" – A Digital Archaeology of the Sacred in Hybrid Art 1. Artistic Conceptualization: Subrealism and Post-Digital Abstraction The work "Protect Life" is part of a contemporary practice of subrealist reinterpretation, where unconventional abstraction operates as a philosophical filter between perception and reality. In homage to Van Gogh's "Mother Roulin with Her Baby," this piece explores: - Abstract Expressionism in Motion: Minimalist animation, frame by frame, becomes a ritual of sanctification of the pictorial gesture, where each image is a temporal stratum, an archaeology of the visible. - The Mythology of Perpetual Motion: Animation is not only a technique, but a metaphor for life—an organic flux between birth, transformation, and persistence. - Digital Diversion as Resistance: Manual tracing (cut-out photography, scanned acrylic paint) and digital painting merge to create a disruptive hybridity, where the manual glitch becomes a marker of memory. 2. Philosophy of the Xanthopsia Collection: Dialectic of Perception The yellow vision (Xanthopsia) is not just an optical symptom, but an allegory of resilience: - Duality and Utopia: Just as Van Gogh saw the world in yellow (medicinal effect or mystical vision?), the work offers a positive reinterpretation of chaos, where digital alteration (manual glitch, superposition) symbolizes the quest for light in darkness. - Dialectic of Tradition/Innovation: The physical canvas (acrylic) and the digital tracing confront and complement each other, reflecting Van Gogh's tensions between figuration and abstraction. 3. Technique as Manifesto: Digital Archaeology and Ritual Remix - Photographed Acrylic Painting: The raw texture and impasto become digitized fossils, recalling the aura of the original. - Manual Cutting and Frame-by-Frame Animation: A craft that resists digital immediacy, transforming the intentional error (manual glitch) into a sacred ceremony. - Post-digital Remix: The work is part of a crypto-artistic subculture (Glitch Community), where the intentional error is a political act against commercial smoothing. 4. Societal Reflection: Art as a Transcultural Medium "Protect Life" questions: - Authenticity in the Age of Digital Copy and Paste: By reactivating Van Gogh through animation, the work shifts the aura (Benjamin) towards a new ritual. Summary: A Dialectical Homage This piece is a digital palimpsest, in which Van Gogh engages in dialogue with subrealism, glitch, and abstract expressionism. By sanctifying movement, it celebrates life as impermanent energy, while magnifying contemporary aesthetic norms. The Xanthopsia collection thus becomes a philosophical laboratory, where each work is a yellow vision—an invitation to see beyond the visible. "Protect Life" is not a copy, but a digital rebirth: a Van Gogh for the post-digital era. Tribute to Van Gogh : « Madame Roulin and Her Baby » 2160 x 3840 px / 4k MP4 / 116 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition see original at :Metropolitan Museum of Art