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Tempor Laboris: Xanthopsia 79

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1. Subrealist Abstraction as a Philosophical Language "Tempor Laboris" revisits Van Gogh's work by transposing it into a subrealist aesthetic where agricultural labor becomes a metaphorical allegory of the cycles of labor, time, and memory. The layering of techniques (acrylic, hand-drawn tracing paper, digital animation) creates a visual layering that evokes: - The layers of time: Van Gogh's peasants, frozen in their ancestral gestures, interact with animated digital elements, symbolizing the evolution of forms of labor (from the field to the digital age). - The idea of a released tension, where the tools of the past (the hoe, the earth) give way to contemporary textual and pictorial fragments, like an archaeology of forgotten gestures. 2. Xanthopsia: An Altered Perception Between Shadow and Light The Xanthopsia ("yellow vision") collection influences this piece by injecting it with a chromatic and symbolic duality: - Yellow, omnipresent in Van Gogh's work (a symbol of hope and madness), is reworked in digital shades to evoke a forced positivity, a utopian filter on the harshness of labor. - The hand-cut layers recall Van Gogh's halos of light, but their digital animation makes them flicker, like a metaphor for modern uncertainties. 3. Mixed Media as an Intertemporal Dialogue - Physical Painting (acrylic on canvas board): Retains Van Gogh's organic texture, but the hand-cut layers introduce a deliberate fragmentation, evoking the incomplete memory of agricultural labor. - Frame-by-frame Animation: Gives a cyclical temporality to the farmers' gestures, between repetition and obsolescence. The words that appear ("labor," "time," "seed") create a visual literature, a window onto contemporary "ills" (burnout, automation). 4. Philosophy of Labor and Transcendence Van Gogh saw peasant labor as a form of sacredness. "Tempor Laboris" pushes this idea toward a meditation on human endeavor: - Duality: The earth (physical) vs. the data (digital). - Coexistence: Ancient tools and pixels coexist, like a palimpsest where nothing is truly erased. "Tempor Laboris" is not a simple reinterpretation, but a reactivation of Van Gogh's work through the prism of subrealism and hybrid techniques. By blending pictorial meditation and critical animation, poetic prose, the work questions, where the mysticism of the seasons and chromatic resilience find an echo in human labor – a quest for a visual poetry which, like Van Gogh, seeks light even in plowed earth. tribute to Van Gogh : Peasants Planting Potatoes see original at: Kröller-Müller Museum format / media / size / speed / timing / éditions : 3840 x 2160 px / 4k mp4 / 119 MB / 8 fps / 59s / 1/1