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Neo-Expressionism on a dish: Xanthopsia 141

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Conceptual Synthesis: "Neo-Expressionism on a dish" – A Subrealist and Hybrid Reinterpretation of Van Gogh's Still Life "Grapes" 1. Philosophical and Artistic Context: My approach is part of a postmodern vision of art, where the reinterpretation of classical works becomes an act of mythological deconstruction and technological rewriting. By renaming this work "Neo-Expressionism on a dish" I transform Van Gogh's Still Life "Grapes" into an allegory of spiritual nourishment, where art becomes a vital substance, an emotional and cognitive balance in a world saturated with information. - Digital Gnosis: The idea that art "nourishes" connects with a contemporary gnosis, where knowledge is no longer solely intellectual, but sensory, algorithmic, and hybrid. 2. Mixed Media: Between Physical Painting and Digital Abstraction My method, subrealist (between figuration and abstraction) and unconventional, is based on: - Photographed and digitized acrylic paint → Material traces preserved, yet transfigured. - Manual cutting on tracing paper → Human gesture preserved despite digitization, as a resistance to pure artificiality. - Stop-motion animation → Fractured temporality, suggesting an altered perception (xanthopsia) where the color yellow becomes the symbol of a luminous utopia emerging from the darkness. 3. Allegory of "Artistic Food" and Digital Subculture By making Expressionism a "plate," I propose a food metaphor for art: - Art as daily nourishment → A reflection on mental well-being in the age of visual overconsumption. - Digital Hybridization → Current subculture (memes, glitch art, deepfakes) devours and recycles classic images, rendering them both distorted and regenerated. - Van Gogh / Post-Internet Duality: Just as Van Gogh saw the world through the prism of his psyche, we now perceive it through the digital filters of digital interfaces. 4. Xanthopsia: Altered Perception and Posthuman Utopia The Xanthopsia (Yellow Vision) collection explores: - The coexistence of opposites (shadow/light, analog/digital). - The idea that sensory distortion (like Van Gogh's) prefigures our own digital hallucinations. - A paradoxical optimism: despite identity fragmentation, art remains a place of regeneration. Conclusion: A New Visual Mythology in the Algorithmic Age My reinterpretation of Van Gogh is not a simple reinterpretation, but an ontological rewriting: - Classical art becomes a substrate that digital technology colonizes and transforms. - "Neo-Expressionism on a dish" thus symbolizes art as an act of cognitive survival in a world where the boundary between real and virtual is blurring. This work not only pays homage to Van Gogh, it also makes him a prototype of the posthuman artist, whose distorted vision anticipates our own screen-filtered realities. Tribute to Van Gogh : « Grapes » Original at : Van Gogh museum 3840 x 2160 px / 4k MP4 / 116 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition