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Warhol’s Screen Tests are revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, filmed between 1963 and 1966. In these short films, Warhol created his own cache of Superstars.
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.
Mar 29, 2024 · Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, conducted between 1963 and 1966, stand out as a defining contribution to the avant-garde cinema movement. Warhol created nearly 500 of these enigmatic short films, which feature the notable faces of figures like Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan, his muse Edie Sedgewick, and The Velvet Underground’s Nico and Lou Reed, as ...
Apr 30, 2018 · Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests explored the human element of its subjects. Warhol challenged performer and viewer by demanding his performers to in front of the camera without direction, placing both viewer and performer in a state of hyper awearness.
Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures focuses on the artist's cinematic portraits and non-narrative, silent, and black-and-white films from the mid-1960s. Warhol's Screen Tests reveal his lifelong fascination with the cult of celebrity, comprising a visual almanac of the 1960s downtown avant-garde scene.
After more than fifteen years of exhaustive research, Angell’s Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné Vol 1, was published in 2006 by Harry Abrams and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
