Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Andy Warhol (documentary film)

Andy Warhol born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.

Warhol's art used many types of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1984, two years before his death. He founded Interview magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

He managed and produced The Velvet Underground, a rock band which had a strong influence on the evolution of punk rock music. He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. His studio, The Factory, was a well known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.


Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame". Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$ 105 million for a 1963 canvas titled "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)". A 2009 article in The Economist described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market". Warhol's works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.



Andy Warhol Documentary: https://youtu.be/Uhr4DiD9ZGk




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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a four-hour 2006 documentary by Ric Burns about pop artist Andy Warhol.

The film is Burns' cinematic argument that Warhol was the greatest artist of the second half of the 20th Century. (Picasso is credited with having that honor in the first half of the 20th Century.) Laurie Anderson narrates the movie.
In one segment, Burns compares Warhol's portraits of such celebrities as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor with the icons of saints that Warhol saw in his boyhood Byzantine Catholic parish, where he spent many hours as a child.

Burns follows Warhol through his meteoric rise in New York's commercial art world during the 1950s. Burns cites 1962, the year Warhol first exhibited his soup can paintings in Los Angeles, as the turning point in Warhol's career.
Burns also describes in detail Valerie Solanas' near-fatal shooting of Warhol in 1968.

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film debuted in early September 2006 with a two-week theatrical run in New York City at Film Forum that charged no admission. The movie was televised in the United States over two nights, September 20–21, 2006, on PBS as part of its American Masters series.



Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (part 1): https://youtu.be/UQXpqQO4vaE



Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (part 2): https://youtu.be/r47Nk4o08pI



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Andy Warhol - The Complete Picture: https://youtu.be/KnhqRiJ4KH8




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Andy Warhol: A Master of the Modern Era: https://youtu.be/x-VFhb-oxHU



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Artworks:
Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) Marilyn Diptych (1962) Men in Her Life (1962) Green Coca-Cola Bottles (1962) Eight Elvises (1963) Ethel Scull 36 Times (1963) Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) (1963) Green Car Crash (1963) Triple Elvis (1963) Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) (1963) Thirteen Most Wanted Men (1964) Shot Marilyns (1964) Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966) Big Electric Chair (1967) Campbell's Soup Cans II (1969) Shadows (1978-79) Portrait of Seymour H. Knox (1985) Camouflage Self-Portrait (1986) Cars (1986)

Films:
Kiss (1963) Eat (1963) Sleep (1963) Screen Tests (1964–6) Blow Job (1964) Batman Dracula (1964) Empire (1964) Soap Opera (1964) Couch (1964) Taylor Mead's Ass (1964) Henry Geldzahler (1964) Harlot (1964) Vinyl (1965) Horse (1965) Space (1965) Camp (1965) Poor Little Rich Girl (1965) Beauty No. 1 (1965) Beauty No. 2 (1965) More Milk, Yvette (1965) The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) Kitchen (1966) Eating Too Fast (1966) The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound (1966) Salvador Dalí (1966) Chelsea Girls (1966) Since (1966) The Andy Warhol Story (1966) I, a Man (1967) Bike Boy (1967) Four Stars**** (1967) Imitation of Christ (1967) Tub Girls (1967) The Nude Restaurant (1967) Lonesome Cowboys (1968) San Diego Surf (1968) Flesh (1968) Blue Movie (1969) Trash (1969) Women in Revolt (1970) Heat (1972) L'Amour (1973) Frankenstein (1973) Bad (1977)

Books: 
25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (1954) a, A Novel (1968) Blue Movie (1970) The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975) Popism: The Warhol Sixties (1980) The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989)

Museums:

The Andy Warhol Museum Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art

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David Bowie - Andy Warhol (Lost Beeb Tapes): https://youtu.be/-x-ZdHrjQfA







Sources: Youtube, Wikipedia









Thursday, March 17, 2016

Osta Love (Rock, Jazz, Pop, Baroque / Germany)


Osta Love unite Rock with Jazz, Pop with Baroque, catchy hooks with complex rhythms and add just the right dose of melancholic dreamscape to form a unique sound that touches hearts and heads.

The band was founded by Tobias Geberth and Leon Ackermann as a studio project, after they left their hometown Heidelberg for Berlin in 2010. The two had met in school and had been playing music together since 2006. Soon the first songs were written, recorded and also performed with a live band. In 2013 they released their debut album Good Morning Dystopia that earned them some attention and many favourable reviews. The line-up was completed when Oliver Nickel joined on bass and Marcel Sollorz on keys and vocals. Over the years Osta Love played live in almost every club in Berlin and played support shows for Boy & Bear and The Pineapple Thief.

Osta Love belief in the album as an artform and like to combine memorable songs with musical ambition and complexity, to form a cohesive listening experience that works on an emotional and on a cerebral level.

Good Morning Dystopia is a fifty minute concept album about urban life, surveillance, alienation and escapism in the third millennium. 
The music uses every possibility of progressive rock: Thematic riffs and complex rhythms, melancholic vocals and lush choirs, orchestral arrangements, electronic sounds and much more. 

The album was financed by fans in an online crowdfunding campaign.

After the dark concept-album Good Morning Dystopia the new record goes in different directions. The accessible and song-oriented compositions merge a wide range of influences to form a musical journey on rivers and oceans, through green hills and dark nights to the fictitious Isle of Dogs. The album closes with a sixteen-minute piece about a writer with writer’s block. 

The Isle of Dogs is the first Osta Love album to feature new band members Marcel Sollorz on keys and vocals and Oliver Nickel on bass.



Translucent Engineering: https://youtu.be/Q8uaKzZwOuA
(Only to listen on YouTube: 16 minutes)




The Isle Of Dogs: https://youtu.be/2EzfKQapKzI :




 Discography

- Good Morning Distopia  (2013)
- The Isle of Dogs (2015)



Source: http://ostalove.com/