Sami Serola (inactive)'s photos with the keyword: red

"Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element..." -Kazimir Malevich See also "oldies goldies": www.ipernity.com/search/photo?w=499633&q=malevich Thanks to Isabel for the tip to use 'cloudy' white balance mode. Pictures of red (dark) also seem to require some heavy darkening, even when the image already has been underexposed. Red as a dark color fools the light meter to choose wrong white balance and over expose the image.

"Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed." -Kazimir Malevich

"For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless." -Kasimir Malevich With this image I end my red period. Here I used a shot of raindrops on a red car, made an orb out of it using "polarcoordinates", and combined it with the original on background.

"Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal." -Kazimir Malevich

"There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement." -Kazimir Malevich (Technical detail: White balance preset from green spot to get red; ND filter, ISO 80 and f/8 used to get long exposure; only post processing is the contrasts enhanced.)

"Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters." -Kazimir Malevich

"Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a (drawn or painted) face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile." -Kazimir Malevich

"The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked." -Kazimir Malevich

"I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch." -Kazimir Malevich

"I have transformed myself in the zero of form and have fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art.. I have destroyed the ring of the horizon and got out of the circle of objects, the horizon ring that has imprisoned the artist and the forms of nature." -Kazimir Malevich

"I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity." -Kazimir Malevich

"Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition." -Kazimir Malevich

Dedicated to Merle Plagge who likes anything red just as I do.