homelessbutclassy:

am i the only one that thinks yellowism’s pretty cool?

samcornwell:

A few potential pieces of Yellowism

►► “Supreme” on Vladimir’s hat
by Marcin Lodyga
text dedicated to Vladimir Umanets who is imprisoned in Maidstone prison, Kent, UK

“It was nothing other than a yearning for speed … for flight … which, seeking an outward shape, brought about the birth of the airplane. For the airplane was not contrived in order to carry business letters from Berlin to Moscow, but rather in obedience to the irresistible drive of this yearning for speed to take on external form.” - Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism

The feeling of speed (flight) required a form and thus we have airplanes. The function of the airplane is not to transport people from one place to another, but to express the desire of speed - an airplane is a shape of this feeling, it’s a “definition” of speed in a form of aeroplane. However, an aeroplane placed in the context of yellowism expresses yellow color instead of the feeling of speed. (The feeling of) yellow can take an outward shape, an external form of any object and being. Yellow in a form of aeroplane, yellow in a form of a chair, yellow in a form of Black Square by Malevich, yellow in a form of “Fountain” by Duchamp. 

In yellowism, in contrary to Suprematism philosophy, the diversity of feelings doesn’t exist. The following feelings “illustrated” by Malevich: the feeling of metallic sounds, the feeling of electric current, the impression of resound, the feeling of magnetic attraction, the impression of universe, the feeling of cosmos, the feeling of mystic wave from cosmos, the feeling of non-objectivity are reduced to one, to the feeling / definition of yellow. All suprematic compositions by Malevich express exactly the same yellowistic feeling/meaning.

“Our life is a theater piece, in which nonobjective feeling is portrayed by objective imagery” says Malevich. Feeling? Kazimir, be precise, you talk about many different feelings, not about one and you defined your Suprematism language (Suprematism forms) to express the various feelings. But yellowists can use all “languages” - the whole art (including Suprematism) and the whole reality to express only one feeling / meaning. Every piece of yellowism is a pure expression of yellow color.

Malevich called his Suprematism world: “nonobjective”. Paradoxically, yellowism is neither objective nor nonobjective because yellowism flattens (to one surface) the nonobjective world (all feelings and impressions) and the objective world (material forms, all objects with their utility) at the same time. You look at a chair and you perceive it as an expression of nonobjective yellow. You look at yellow which only looks like a dark brown wooden chair.

Yellowism is based on the supremacy of yellow and takes domination over Suprematism. 

text by Marcin Lodyga, London, 2013

levishanexxx:

yellowism

Yellowism is based on the supremacy of yellow and takes domination over Suprematism.

rgfk:

it’s really disappointing yellowism is a poorly executed boring as fuck concept that’s been awkwardly stretched to look and sound like a movement when it’s kinda just an idea that is sort of some fusion of dadaism and absurdism and just kinda ehh?

i hope the dudes refine their ideas a lil more and do something cool with them.

►► Movement

Yellowism is not an artistic movement. Futurism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Fluxus, Cubism etc are the art movements, but yellowism is not. However, yellowism is a movement in a bit different sense. Yellowism is a move, a shift, displacement. Yellowists can move all artistic movements into the context of yellowism where artistic movements will not be assigned to the domain of art any longer and will lose all the meanings they carry. The radical move, the transition from the context of art to the context of yellowism. Duchamp moved an urinal from reality to art, we can move an urinal from art into yellowism. We can move all artistic movements like futurism, surrealism, dadaism, constructivism, cubism and more into yellowism. The manifesto of yellowism flattens manifestos by Marinetti, Breton or Tzara.

text by Marcin Lodyga

///: yellowism hasn’t and won’t pick up because it isn’t relevant anywhere...

lictn:

yellowism hasn’t and won’t pick up because it isn’t relevant anywhere to anyone. it is highly inaccessible and pertains to a minuscule percentage. i admit that it opens up the discussion of what is and what isn’t art in an unique way, it’s an interesting take on perception and context, but the…

►► The timeless pain of yellowism
by Marcin Lodyga

Perhaps Matthias Grunewald painted the intense crucifixion because he knew that one day this painting will be presented in the context of yellowism. Maybe Picasso thought about yellowism when he painted Guernica in 1937. Was it really created in response to the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian warplanes? Naah, it was made to express yellow color only. Artists from the past they knew already that in the future their works will be flattened inside the merciless space called yellowism. Some say that Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by Michelangelo (between 1508 and 1512 ) at the commission of Pope Julius II. I would rather say this ceiling was painted by Michelangelo at the commission of yellowists Vladimir Umanets and Marcin Lodyga who five hundred years later started yellowism. Also, the Paleolithic cave paintings were made to be placed, finally, inside a yellowistic chamber - prehistoric people were absolutely sure that one day the whole Lascaux cave will be surrounded by purple walls of a huge yellowistic chamber. That’s obvious that from the very beginning yellowism was the final destination for Mark Rothko Seagram murals. That’s why  Rothko never devised a ‘final’ scheme for The Four Seasons restaurant. His studio assistant, Dan Rice, recalls that Rothko ‘was very reflective, gathering all the paintings together again and jumbling them up. It would be very difficult to say that one was intended as part of the murals and one was not’. Rothko could not decide because he knew that yellowism is coming.

What if all art was made for yellowism, if the total flattening proposed by yellowists was always the real (hidden) purpose of any art ? Imagine, Van Gogh was struggling with pain in the name of yellowism. Every artists only pretended that art he does is full of meanings and symbols. Marcel Duchamp and his son Joseph Kosuth introduced the era of interpretations and were questioning the nature of art just to hide the fact that they want to be yellowists. Kazimir Malevich defined suprematism to give the another product to yellowists.

Today, the whole history of art (like a big urinal) can be taken by yellowists and flattened to yellow, reduced to yellow. We can move art in the context of yellowism and it will be not art anymore. What if all works of art were intended to be pieces of yellowism? The history of art is a mask. The history of art is a mystification which is necessary to stand and hide the timeless “pain” of yellowism.

In Case of Yellowism (From or by Marcin Lodyga) 2013 - a series of nomadic yellowistic chambers to present pieces of yellowism. The cases are made by Pelican Products, Inc. - the global leader in design and manufacture of high-performance case solutions. Their products are used in the most demanding markets including firefighters, police, defense / military, aerospace. Pelican products are designed and built to last a lifetime. The cases by Pelican will have now a new function: yellowists will use them as yellowistic chambers. The “interior” of each case/chamber  will be violet/purple. The manifesto of yellowism will be attached inside. These nomadic yellowistic chambers can not be presented in art galleries and museums.