60 Replicas: A Visual Archive of Neuro-Landscape
This second video is not just a slideshow. It is a slideshow as a form of reflection, where each painting is not a frame, but a variation on a theme.
At its core are 60 vertical originals created by the Normov Art Studio for Dzen and YouTube. These works are menophenes — presences that hesitated to become phenomena. They do not narrate — they suggest.
🌱 A Landscape That Hesitated to Become a Painting.
🎨 Palette Knife and Brush: The Structure of a Landscape
In the originals, a distinct technique is visible: — at the edges, a palette knife: broad, textured, almost noisy. — at the center, a brush: focused, delicate, creating clarity.
Sometimes the composition forms a circular concentration, sometimes a vertical flow from top to bottom, where grass appears in the foreground — blurred or wave-like in detail.
📍 Clearing After Light Rain Vertical original with bold palette knife in the sky, detailed grass in the center, and soft-focus flowers in the foreground.
🧭 From Vertical to Horizontal: Replicas in 4K
A Transformation of Gaze
In the replicas, the vertical format becomes a horizontal 4K landscape, where composition shifts from center to breadth.
This is not mere technical adaptation — it is a transformation of gaze. Instead of vertical lightfall — horizontal flow: roads, fields, tree lines. Instead of focus — spatial breathing.
📍 Young Tree Horizontal replica with altered symmetry and luminous emphasis.
🌿 Floral Silence
A Landscape Without Living Beings
There are no animals, no humans in these works. But this is not lifelessness — it is a choice.
Nature speaks for itself — through grass, light, clouds, and rain. This is a landscape without living beings, but full of elemental presence. Flora is not background — it is language. It whispers, moves, disappears into mist.
🌫️ Moisture, Fog, Light
Element Instead of Action
Many paintings are built on atmospheric states: — rain, just passed, — fog, not yet lifted, — light, sliding across wet grass.
This is element instead of action. There are no events, but there is movement — of air, water, time.
🎀 The Pink Palette as an Interior Gesture
Some series feature a heightened pink palette — perhaps intended for children's room décor. Pink meadows, sunset clouds, pastel fields — all serve as visual comfort, a dream without narrative, an interior gesture.
📍 Forest Path in Early Autumn
🧠 Biography of a Gaze
Composition Without Author
Each replica is not a copy, but a distancing — from nearly faithful to nearly fantastical.
This allows the artist’s intent to dissolve into atmosphere. It is a biography of a gaze, not of the author. A composition without a signature — but with a voice.
🎼 Neuro-Advertising Without Words
The background music is not accompaniment — it is the pulse of the image. It does not illustrate — it absorbs.
The video does not sell paintings — it implants them into imagination. This is neuro-advertising without words, where each scene becomes a spatial proposition.
📚 Mirages Without Figure
Paths Without Footsteps
There are no figures, no footprints, no gaze in these landscapes. But there are mirages, paths, wet earth no one has walked.
This is landscape as state, not as event. This is silence that resonates.
🎼 Music
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📘 Glossary of Authorial Terms
Menophene A coined term describing a visual or conceptual presence that resists full manifestation.
A menophene is not a phenomenon, but something that lingers just before becoming one — a visual state that hesitates, remains unresolved, and invites contemplation rather than recognition.
Compuypisec (from “computationally replicated pictorial essence”) A neologism referring to algorithmically generated replicas of original artworks, where the essence is preserved but the form is transformed.
Compuypisec describes the process of creating layered, generative replicas that echo the original’s emotional and compositional core, while allowing for variation, abstraction, and reinterpretation.
Neuro-painting A genre or method of image creation using neural networks, where the result is not a simulation of painting, but a new form of visual expression.
Neuro-painting is not digital mimicry — it’s a way of seeing through the lens of algorithmic intuition. It blends painterly texture with computational rhythm, creating images that feel both familiar and alien.