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The main objective of my work is to make you part of a representation of Van Gogh’s sunflowers. The other purpose, being accompanied sonorously by a Mozart adage and the theory about what the color yellow visually transmits, is to generate an atmosphere of tranquility, happiness, harmony, etc.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

My work is composed of a sunflower made in 3D, which allows, through an orbital camera, to rotate it to see it from other angles. Sonically, it is accompanied by a fragment of a Mozart adagio, and visually it is the color yellow that predominates in the work.

In addition to having Vincent Van Gogh as a reference painter, in high school I read the book “Color Psychology: How Colors Act on Feelings and Reason” by Eva Heller in which I realized the connection I have with the artist and how much I like yellow and sunflowers since I was little. Van Gogh’s work, especially the Sunflowers series, transmits to me that joy and serenity that Heller talks about “Yellow serenely and animates.[…] it radiates, it smiles, it is the main color of kindness[…] fun, radiant like a wide smile.” and also quotes “Sunlight is perceived as yellow, although it does not actually have any color. Vincent Van Gogh wrote[…]: “Everywhere there is a hue like sulfur, the sun rises to my head. A light that, for lack of better expressions, I can only say is yellow[…]Yellow is beautiful.” Van Gogh painted his house in Arles in solar yellow, and he also used it on his canvases; everything yellow excited him.”

This feeling is what I want to be transmitted when you see my work, to feel what yellow transmits, within this reversal of The Sunflowers, as if you were in France in 1888.

By using the camera, you can explore the sunflower from different perspectives, making the ways to see it endless. “In our art the horizon lines multiply to infinity, in infinite dimensions. Their purpose responds only to an aesthetic according to which the painting is no longer the painting, the sculpture is no longer the sculpture and the written page becomes independent of its typographic form.” Fricke quotes in “New Media” about a text by Fontana.

Literature

“Jarrón con doce girasoles” de Vincent Van Gogh. (1888)

“Concierto para clarinete en La mayor, K. 622” de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (1791)

“Psicología del color: cómo actúan los colores sobre los sentimientos y la razón” de Eva Heller. (2004)

“Nuevos Medios” de Christiane Fricke. (1999)