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MArcel Duchamp Portrait by Andy Warhol is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Eyeballing It

Andy's "Screen Tests" hover between Rembrandt and Dada

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This is Marcel Duchamp, at age 78, in a single frame from one of Warhol’s “Screen Tests”, the four-minute filmed portraits that Warhol made by the hundreds in the mid 1960s, mostly by pointing his movie camera at a subject and asking them not to move.

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