Description
My work is part of a hybrid contemporary artistic approach, blending pictorial heritage and digital innovations, while philosophically interrogating the notions of movement, fluidity, and perception. Here is an in-depth analysis of this concept, structured around its aesthetic, technical, and symbolic dimensions.
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1. Subrealist Reinterpretation and Expressive Abstraction
My "subrealist" approach goes beyond traditional realism to explore a formal language where figuration gives way to suggestive abstraction, while retaining a narrative imprint. By revisiting the Portrait of the Postman Roulin, I deconstruct forms and colors, recalling Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, De Kooning), where gesture and emotion take precedence over faithful representation.
- Movement and fluidity: The title "Drop by Drop of the Postman" evokes a flow, a transition—metabolic of the passage between the physical and the digital, between the original work and its reinterpretation.
- Unconventional homage: This is not a copy, but a transposition into a dreamlike register, where subjectivity alters perception—as in Xanthopsia (yellow vision), which here symbolizes a search for light in the heart of darkness.
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2. Mixed media: physical and digital
Your hybrid creative process embodies a contemporary vision of art, at the crossroads of mediums:
- Acrylic paint on photographed canvas: The manual gesture retains a materiality, an "aura" in the Benjaminian sense, while being captured and transposed into the digital space.
- Stop-motion animation: This minimalist technique suggests a breakdown of movement, echoing Van Gogh's work on the vibration of color and brushstrokes. Animation becomes a metaphor for retinal persistence and the decomposition of reality.
- Digital painting: It allows for infinite, modular re-creation, reflecting the idea of circulation and transformation—directly linked to your parallel with blockchain.
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3. Art/technology parallel: blockchain as metaphor
My conceptual thinking establishes a dialogue between historical art and emerging technologies:
- Fluidity of data vs. fluidity of painting: Blockchain, as a decentralized system of circulation and certification, resonates with the perpetual movement of Van Gogh's painting—its swirls, curves, and visual energy. Each "drop" (data/gesture) is part of a continuous flow.
- Decentralization and reinterpretation: Blockchain allows for a collective reappropriation and permanent recreation of works—just as my personal reinterpretation reactivates Portrait of the Postman Roulin in a new cultural context. -------------------------
4. The Xanthopsia Collection: Duality and Coexistence
The "yellow vision" functions as a conceptual and perceptual filter:
- Altered Perception and Utopia: Like Van Gogh, who saw the world through a heightened sensitivity, Xanthopsia symbolizes the ability to extract positivity and beauty even in darkness. It embodies a duality: anxiety and hope, illness and creativity.
- Duality in Nature and Art: Van Gogh explored the tensions between order and chaos, reason and madness. My reinterpretation pursues this idea by showing how modern techniques (digital/traditional) can coexist and enrich each other.
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5. Philosophical and Aesthetic Synthesis
Your approach illustrates several key issues in contemporary art:
- The Reinvention of the Classics: Art as a palimpsest, where each era rewrites past works. - Transcendence of Time: Like Van Gogh, your work seeks the universal in the personal, the spiritual in the material.
- Rediscovered Sensitivity: Despite the technicality, the work remains profoundly human—a "drop by drop" evoking patience, process, and the persistence of the creative gesture.
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Conclusion:
"Drop by Drop of the Postman" and the Xanthopsia collection offer an ambitious reinterpretation of Van Gogh, where subrealist abstraction and hybrid techniques serve a meditation on movement—that of painting, data, and thought. This work embodies a utopian and contemporary vision: art as flux, as a dialogue between yesterday and tomorrow, between the hand and the screen.
It invites active contemplation, where the viewer is led to question their own perception—and to find in the symbolism of the yellow of the Xanthopsia, a glimmer of hope and renewal.
Tribute to Van Gogh: Portrait of Postman Roulin, 1888
Original at : Detroit Institute of Arts
digital art version :
2160 x 3840 px / 4k MP4 / 147 Mo / 13 fps / 1/1 édition