Yellowism

►► Worst than the Antichristby Marcin Lodyga Yellowism is bullshit. What is this crap? The whole...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:40:25 +0100

►► Worst than the Antichrist
by Marcin Lodyga

Yellowism is bullshit. What is this crap? The whole concept of yellowism is fucking stupid. Mindless. This movement is disgusting and obnoxious. That is the most disgusting thing I have ever witnessed. 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? This ‘movement’ is one thing only. Pretentious rubbish. These yellowists are likely to be unable to understand the true passion of art and depth of being. No, yellowism isn’t dada, or nihilistism, it is fascism, the fascism of meaning, prescribed singular determined meaning, with no belief in the room for interpretation, authoritarian epitome of the perfectly ordered world that doesn’t actually exist, and in its rejection of reality, yellowism is nihilistic, a triumph over nihilism via a sturdier less fun form of nihilism.

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. The pretentiousness surrounding the movement itself evokes feelings of facetiousness. A radical change of perception hasn’t and won’t happen anytime soon; there are much more relevant things to think and worry about in this day and age. My advice? Grow up and get a job. Both of you. Listen to me, no one is going to drink your yellow kool-aid. Your totalitarian snake oil ideology has been ineffectual and irrelevant since De Stijl/Neoplasticism tried it. Stop talking about Duchamp he would never consider you. Yellowism is urine. Maybe the Dada references are off the mark. I think we may have some neo-Futurists in Yellow garb.

Well fuck yellowism. That word doesn’t exist in my spell-check and now it doesn’t exist as a real thing in my life. No one wants you here yellowism, go home. You’re a piece of shit. Die. Yellowism is a fucking joke. You’re like Dada’s little bitch freak sister who tries incest on him in his sleep. Die. History teaches you nothing. Give up.

text by Marcin Lodyga, London 2013

►► Useful Platoby Marcin LodygaI only use Plato philosophy to explain the difference between works...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:09:11 +0100

►► Useful Plato
by Marcin Lodyga

I only use Plato philosophy to explain the difference between works of art and pieces of yellowism. In this text Plato theory is just a cheeky education tool for me.

According to Plato objects are momentary portrayals of the Form under different circumstances. Form is a distinct singular thing but caused plural representations of itself in particular objects. These Forms are the essences of various objects: they are that without which a thing would not be the kind of thing it is. For example, there are countless tables in the world but the Form of tableness is at the core; it is the essence of all of them.

Let’s play with Plato. Consider two hypothetical Forms: Form of work of art-ness and Form of piece of yellowism-ness. Sorry for the funny neologisms.These Forms are the essences of various objects: they are that without which a thing would not be the kind of thing it is. For example, there are countless works of art in the world but the Form of work of art-ness is at the core; it is the essence of all of them. Also, there are pieces of yellowism in the world but Form of piece of yellowism-ness is at the core; it is the essence of all of them.

Imagine that general Form of tableness is divided and you see one table which participate in Form of art-ness and another table which participate in Form of piece of yellowism-ness. One table is a work of art, the other is a piece of yellowism, but they look exactly the same. However, it’s just an external resemblance because Form of work of art-ness is not the essence of all pieces of yellowism and Form of piece of yellowism-ness is not the essence of any work of art.

Let’s forget about Plato. From now Form of art(ness) is just the context of art and Form of yellowism(ness) will be called: the context of yellowism. A work of art transported from one context to another gains different status. What if the context of yellowism determines a new meaning and its own ontology at the same time? Is the (nature of) context based just on the radical change of perception (how we see and understand things) or maybe it is based on the change of nature itself too ?

text by Marcin Lodyga, London, 2013

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

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:10:31 +0100

homelessbutclassy:

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

samcornwell: A few potential pieces of Yellowism

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:09:13 +0100

samcornwell:

A few potential pieces of Yellowism

►► “Supreme” on Vladimir’s hatby Marcin Lodygatext dedicated to Vladimir Umanets...

Sun, 12 May 2013 08:16:05 +0100

►► “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

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:15:47 +0100

levishanexxx:

yellowism

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

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:30:55 +0100

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...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:14:00 +0100

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...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:56:13 +0100

►► 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...

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:15:00 +0100

///: 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 yellowismby Marcin Lodyga Perhaps Matthias Grunewald painted the intense...

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:01:00 +0100

►► 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...

Sat, 04 May 2013 15:32:33 +0100

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.

Yellowism Studio #2 has opened on 4th April 2013 in London,...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:13:16 +0100

Yellowism Studio #2 has opened on 4th April 2013 in London, UK

(The first yellowism studio was in Cairo, Egypt in 2010/2011 http://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowism )

Marcin Lodyga“No news from Andy Warhol with the red sunflower in a yellowistic...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:56:00 +0100

Marcin Lodyga
“No news from Andy Warhol with the red sunflower in a yellowistic chamber”
yellowistic draft (not a piece of yellowism)
watercolors on Guardian newspaper 25.04.2013

►► The Treachery of Ontological Imagesby Marcin Lodygatext dedicated to Khadija Davies, Easter...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:27:00 +0100

►► The Treachery of Ontological Images
by Marcin Lodyga
text dedicated to Khadija Davies, Easter 2013

I look at “Treachery of Images” by Rene Magritte and I say: “this is not a work of art” because this painting is placed in a yellowistic chamber. Magritte painted a pipe and wrote under it: “Ceçi n’est pas une pipe” - this is not a pipe. Indeed, what we see on canvas is not actually a pipe, but the image of a pipe.

Rene Magritte, ”Treachery of Images”

As Harkness characterizes Foucault and Magritte in his introduction to Michel Foucault book “This is Not a Pipe”, both engage in a critique of language: the former historico- epistemological, the latter visual. Each in his own way concurs with the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure in asserting the arbitrariness of the sign. However, in the arbitrary context of yellowism, Magritte’s message and Foucault’s analysis of the distinction between resemblance and similitude in visual representation are not important anymore.The discussion between painter and philosopher and their critique of language ends here, in the chamber. Now you can only say the final sentence, the last possible expression of, perhaps, still postmodern parlance: “this is about yellow” or “this is not a work of art”.

The pipe on the painting only looks like a pipe but you can not put tobacco into it and smoke. This is not a pipe then. Moreover, Magritte’s painting inside a yellowistic chamber is not a work of art, it gained the new status, it only looks like works of art. According to the manifesto, pieces of yellowism can look like works of art but are not works of art. If you see Magritte’s pipe inside yellowism and you think that it is art - you are wrong. You are looking at a piece of yellowism. This is the treachery of “ontological images”.

Khadija Davies
“Treachery of Images (Ceçi n’est pas une pipe)”
after Magritte
yellowistic draft
executed in 2013

FUCK OFF PLEASE

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:13:13 +0000

How does your movement respond to Barthes position that with the "death of the author" no text (or visual text) retains a single meaning once it is released into a realm where it is viewed and received by others?

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:25:00 +0000

http://www.thisisyellowism.com/post/46002568005/the-authors-of-the-death-by-marcin-lodyga-when

►► The Authors of the Deathby Marcin LodygaWhen looking from art perspective, one can say that...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:05:09 +0000

►► The Authors of the Death
by Marcin Lodyga

When looking from art perspective, one can say that yellowism is a dead territory where the richness of meanings and interpretations is reduced to one - to yellow. But one needs to remember that yellowists don’t announce the death of art. Art is and will be alive forever. They rather say that yellowism is dead, inert, homogeneous mass without creativity. Authors of the manifesto and definition of yellowism are the authors of the death - yellowists are the authors of a single interpretation. This death is positioned outside of art, like mirror.

Roland Barthes in “The Death of the Author” says: “To give a text an Author” and assign a single, corresponding interpretation to it “is to impose a limit on that text.” Barthes argues against the method of reading that relies on aspects of the author’s identity — their political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes — to distill meaning from the author’s work. Yellowists want to impose a limit on the text, on art, and on ordinary reality too, but not by giving a “text” an author. Paraphrasing Barthes I say: To give a “text” a YELLOW and assign a single, corresponding interpretation to it is to impose a limit on the text. Barthes demands the death of the author (author disappears) because the author’s identity limits the text, the reading. In yellowism case author also disappears and yellow - the necessary “limitation” appears instead of the author.

Inside yellowism the artistic kingdom of meanings and interpretations is erased together with the author. It doesn’t matter WHO made a piece of yellowism because all pieces were, are and will be about yellow only. Yellowism is permanent, boring, inert, homogeneous flat, ‘dead’ mass. Always was and always will be. Like in the forest where all the trees (meanings) ‘look’ the same – wherever you go you are in the same place anyway. A thousand kilometers left, two meters right or backwards – you are always in the same place. In yellowism the nature of the authors has “the identity of the indistinguishable forest”.

Barthes conclusion: “the birth of the reader must be ransomed by the death of the Author.” Yellowism conclusion: the death of meanings and the death of the author must be ransomed by the birth of single meaning - yellow.

Marcin Lodyga“Sounds from the chamber”piece of yellowismfor public audition in...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:54:00 +0000

Marcin Lodyga
“Sounds from the chamber”
piece of yellowism
for public audition in yellowistic chambers only
CD / audio recording of a walk through Miroslaw Balka exhibition Gravity made in the gallery space
executed in 2013

please can you explain the relevance of all the tits and bums on this site to yellowism. Is yellowism tits and bums? is that the context everything is reduced to?

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:38:13 +0000