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Free-form painting to cultivate a future without wars: Xanthopsia 69

Creator

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Description

My artistic and philosophical project articulates a reinterpretation of Van Gogh's work, transforming A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage into a contemporary allegory where subrealist abstraction and mixed media (acrylic, digital, oil pastel) become a manifesto for peace and freedom of expression. Here is an in-depth summary structured around key themes: ------------------------- Reinterpretation as a political and historical act - Tribute to "degenerate" artists: By evoking the persecution of the avant-garde by fascist regimes, I link unconventional art to resistance against oppression. My title, Free-form painting to cultivate a future without wars, anchors the work in an active utopia, where creativity defies dogma. - Mixed media as symbol: The superposition of media (physical/digital) reflects the stratification of historical memories and the fusion of artistic languages for a transhistorical dialogue. ------------------------- Meditation on the artistic gesture - "Emotive and sensitive" drawing: Oil pastel, through its tactile materiality, reactivates the pleasure of primal gesture, echoing the raw energy of Van Gogh's sketches. This physical approach contrasts with digital, creating a dialectic between the immediacy of the hand and the distance of the screen. - Reinvention and adaptation: My process illustrates Walter Benjamin's thesis on the reconfigured aura: digital technology does not destroy the original, but recharges it with new semantic potential. ------------------------- Philosophy of art as resilience - Temporal transcendence: By reactivating Van Gogh, I prove that classical works are palimpsests open to reinterpretation. My piece becomes a meeting place between the 19th century and contemporary artistic activism. - Art Against Guns: Through its hybridity, the work embodies the idea that formal freedom (abstraction, the unconventional) is an antidote to systemic violence, extending Adorno's thinking on art after horror. ------------------------- Conclusion: A Layered Manifesto My work goes beyond simple reinterpretation to become a critical apparatus: each medium added to Van Gogh's canvas is a layer of reflection on the artist's role as a cultivator of hope. Xanthopsia, far from being a simple aesthetic filter, symbolizes the quest for new clarity in the darkness—a poetic response to the current political emergency. By merging ancestral gestures with contemporary tools, I affirm that art remains a symbolic battlefield, where brushes (real or virtual) can still plow the future. tribute to Van Gogh : A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage see original at: Art Institute of Chicago format / media / size / speed / éditions 3840 x 2160 px / mp4 / 116 MB / 8 fps / 1/1