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Floating Particularity: Xanthopsia 140

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1. Artistic Conceptualization: Subrealist Abstraction and Digital Hybridization The work "Floating Particularity" revisits Van Gogh's Portrait of Joseph Roulin as a contemporary abstraction combining traditional acrylic painting and digital techniques. This subrealist approach (between surrealism and post-digital abstraction) deconstructs the portrait to extract an allegory of human particularities—those unique traits that make us both fragile and powerful. - Mixed Media: - Physical painting (acrylic on canvas) recreating the portrait with expressionist distortions, then photographed and digitized. - Manual clipping using superimposed layers, evoking identity fragmentation in the digital age. - Minimalist animation (frame by frame) integrating physical effects of floating particles, symbolizing the instability and fluidity of individual particularities in a normative world. 2. Philosophy of the work: Particularity as a subversive force The work explores: - The duality of uniqueness: Our particularities can make us "float" on the margins of society, but can also become levers of radical singularity. - Digital subculture: In an algorithmic world where identity is often reduced to data, this piece celebrates imperfections as a resistance to standardization. - Van Gogh's legacy reinterpreted: Like him, whose "yellow vision" (Xanthopsia) transformed his perception, this work suggests that our differences are unique aesthetic and existential filters. 3. The Xanthopsia Collection: Altered Perception and Post-Digital Utopia This piece is part of a series exploring: - Sensory Dystopia/Utopia: Just as Van Gogh saw the world in yellow (Xanthopsia), the work offers a positive reinterpretation of distortions—our "flaws" as new beauties. - The Coexistence of Opposites: Harmonization of the physical (canvas) and the virtual (animation), reflecting Van Gogh's tensions between madness and genius. Conclusion: An Artistic Manifesto for the Hybrid Age "Floating Particularity" is much more than a tribute: it is a philosophical artifact that: - Reinvents the sacred (the classical portrait) as a technological myth. - Questions post-identity: Are we stable beings, or constantly mutating data flows? By hybridizing Van Gogh and subrealist abstraction, this work re-enchants difference—not as a weakness, but as a new visual grammar for the posthuman era. Tribute to Van Gogh : « Portrait of Joseph Roulin » Original at : Kunstmuseum Winterthur 2160 x 3840 px / 4k MP4 / 110 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition