Filming also took place at Warhol's studio The Factory. The film was shot in the summer and early autumn of 1966 in various rooms and locations inside the Hotel Chelsea, though contrary to the film's title, only poet René Ricard actually lived there at the time. In Ric Burns' documentary film Andy Warhol, Tavel recollected that Warhol took a napkin and drew a line down the middle and wrote 'B' and 'W' on opposite sides of the line he then showed it to Tavel, explaining "I want to make a movie that is a long movie, that is all black on one side and all white on the other." Warhol was referring to both the visual concept of the film, as well as the content of the scenes presented. The poster was used as the cover art for Felt's 1984 album The Splendour of Fear.Īccording to scriptwriter Ronald Tavel, Warhol first brought up the idea for the film in the back room of Max's Kansas City, Warhol's favorite nightspot, during the summer of 1966. ![]() ![]() Warhol was extremely happy with the design, and commented that he "wished the movie was as good as the poster". With its creativity and eroticism, the poster captures the sensual essence of the film, and was designed for its London release by graphic artist Alan Aldridge. The girl in the poster is Clare Shenstone, at the age of 16, an aspiring artist later influenced by Francis Bacon. The film was the inspiration for star Nico's 1967 debut album, Chelsea Girl, which featured a ballad-like track titled " Chelsea Girls", which was written about the hotel and its inhabitants. The original cut runs at just over three hours long. The film is presented in a split screen, accompanied by alternating soundtracks attached to each scene and an alternation between black-and-white and color photography. It was shot at the Hotel Chelsea and other locations in New York City, and follows the lives of several of the young women living there, and stars many of Warhol's superstars. The film was Warhol's first major commercial success after a long line of avant-garde art films (both feature-length and short). In 2022, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold for $195 million, which is the most expensive work of art sold at auction by an American artist.Chelsea Girls is a 1966 American experimental underground film directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey. ![]() In 2013, a 1963 serigraph titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) sold for $105 million. His works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable. Warhol has been described as the "bellwether of the art market". The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. After gallbladder surgery, Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58 in New York City. In June 1968, he was almost killed by radical feminist Valerie Solanas, who shot him inside his studio. He lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement. He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. In the late 1960s he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame". His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).īorn and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. 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, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Aug– February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
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