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Screen Tests
The ''Screen Tests'' are a series of short, silent, black-and-white film portraits by Andy Warhol, made between 1964 and 1966, generally showing their subjects from the neck up against plain backdrops. The ''Screen Tests'', of which 472 survive, depict a wide range of figures, many of them part of the mid-1960s downtown New York cultural scene. Under Warhol's direction, subjects of the ''Screen Tests'' attempted to sit motionless for around three minutes while being filmed, with the resulting movies projected in slow motion. The films represent a new kind of portraiture—a slowly moving, nearly still image of a person. Warhol's ''Screen Tests'' connect on one hand with the artist's other work in film, which emphasized stillness and duration (for example, ''Sleep'' (1964) and ''Empire'' (1965), and on the other hand with his focus after the mid-1960s on documenting his celebrity milieu in paintings and other works. History and production The ''Screen Tests'' were initially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warhol Sedgwick Screen Test
Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings ''Campbell's Soup Cans'' (1962) and ''Marilyn Diptych'' (1962), the experimental film ''Chelsea Girls'' (1966), the multimedia events known as the ''Exploding Plastic Inevitable'' (1966–67), and the Sex in film, erotic film ''Blue Movie'' (1969) that started the "Golden Age of Porn". Born and raised in Pittsburgh in a family of Rusyn Americans, Rusyn immigrants, Warho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
