All and everything / by Marcin Lodyga

Imagine that you are a guide in an art gallery similar to Tate Modern in London; people follow you and you explain: this work here is about yellow and expresses yellow and nothing more, the next work made by X is about yellow and expresses yellow and nothing more, and this work of art made by Y is about yellow and expresses yellow and nothing more, and the work made by Z is about yellow and expresses yellow... After the tour it turns out that according to you all of the (let's say a thousand) different exhibited works which are derived from different periods of art and were created for various reasons are about yellow and express yellow and nothing more, so people ask: "are you blind and stupid?" You equated, as some dictator, the whole richness of meanings, symbols, references (and also the lack of meanings and  the whole abstraction) to a single expression, so... fuck off! Immediately after this indictment they would kill you :-) It could not happen in a large yellowistic chamber where in the same way you would explain a thousand variously-looking pieces of  yellowism (every piece done by someone else); it can be pieces of yellowism visually very simmilar to the works of art that you have explained in the gallery.  In the yellowistic chamber, people aware of the context in which they are located would say that you are right - all pieces in the chamber are about yellow and express yellow and nothing more.


In art, unlike in yellowism,  ALL and EVERYTHING is not flattened to yellow; therefore yellowism is not art.*

*Of course this is not the only reason, from which yellowism is not art. Ask me and I will give you more...