Word: warholism
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...puts it best: "Our environment, our sensibilities, the very quality of both our waking and sleeping hours, are all formed largely by people with no more artistic conscience or intelligence than a cumquat. If the happy few do not study them at least as seriously as they study Andy Warhol, then they will lose their grip on the American reality...
...world of films is represented by a portfolio of Andy Warhol girls, whose cliches are beginning to rival Hollywood's: "My best scene with Andy so far was a rape scene. I think sex and nudity in films are completely right because that's the way it is in life...
Clarke's technique is similar to Andy Warhol's photographic silk-screen caricatures in that it is based on elementary colors laid one atop another. But unlike Warhol, Clarke actually seems tp like colors that harmonize, and he keeps them in tune. The silky gown of Charpentier's Mile. Charlotte is reduced to four shades of grey, but they balance precisely. Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People becomes a tatterdemalion tapestry of rich reds, browns, rusts and golds, a country mile closer to paisley than pop. Clarke's new old masters are selling fast...
...Warhol's medium is more real than documentary. And to have cut Blow Job would have weakened the feeling for what was happening in the actor's face and to have added more action would have confused the study. It may be too much for the theatre audience to take, but it is doing something the camera's never done before...
Camp was a home movie of some of Warhol's friends that was so dull that even the actors in the backround weren't interested with what was going on, and we had to walk...