![]() ![]() Kim may not be satirising Ross, but he has other targets. The issue is just that this painter’s artistic goals (and Kim’s) are a bit more antic than Ross’s. He is sincere and patient, and he wants you to learn. That latter characterisation seems particularly misjudged – the actor actually comes across as decidedly pro-Ross, exuding the same earnestness and equanimity as the beloved TV painting-instructor. Each mark, each scream, is a bit different.Ī quick internet search can yield stories about it on clickbait-y sites with headlines like ‘Try Not to Laugh as This Man Calmly Paints Yellow Lines While Screaming’ and ‘Meet the Anti-Bob Ross of Korea’. He paints what he terms “some screams of unbearable confusion” and “a short scream expressing a flashing pain”. As he makes careful horizontal strokes in shades of yellow, he leans towards the canvas and screams. His advice: “Don’t think just choose your colours and move your brush as you feel.” And so he proceeds to do just that. Staring straight at the camera, the man counsels his viewers: “You may find it hard to think about something or make decisions” when painting. The South Korean artist Kim Beom, who is fifty-nine, has made such an artwork: a spellbinding 2012 video titled Yellow Scream, in which an actor, Choi Kyong-Ho, demonstrates how to make an abstract painting in 30 minutes. The piece may win its creator new fans, but as it circulates, various odd, and sometimes ill-informed, interpretations have been known to accrue. This is a fraught experience, at once a gift and a curse. It is a vanishingly rare event, but it does happen: an artist makes a work that is so effective, so potently charismatic – too charismatic, you could even say – that it takes on a life of its own. From portraits without pictures to predatory prey, the South Korean artist’s idionsyncratic work delights in upending established orders and power dynamics ![]()
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