Now through December 20 only, the Walker Art Center is streaming Seoul-based artist Kim Beom’s Yellow Scream (2012), which takes its inspiration from Bob Ross-style painting shows:
After discussing his assembled materials—a primed canvas, oil paint mixed with turpentine, a size-3 flat hog-bristle brush—the video’s instructor begins: “The technique to this painting is to incorporate the sound of screams into the brush strokes.” Dressed in a pressed gray dress shirt and pleated pants, he explains to the camera, “A brush stroke done with screaming is very different from a normal one. … The effect of the screams is recorded with the brush strokes.” He then dips his brush in a dab of lemon yellow paint, leans into the canvas, and lets out an anguished wail as he makes his first stroke: “Aaaaaaaaagh!”